Re: [sipX-dev] unable to specify FTP directory
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Keys [mailto:mkeys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 12:41 AM
> To: Campbell, Alfred (BL60:9D30)
> Cc: Lawrence, Scott (BL60:9D30); sipx-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [sipX-dev] unable to specify FTP directory
>
> On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 17:43 -0400, Alfred Campbell wrote:
> >
> > You mean this one: http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XX-5288
> > Why don't you just create a different FTP login for each system that
> has
> > a different home directory?
> >
>
> Easy "hack" but counter-productive and not very security conscious.
> Could you imagine the headache of an administrator running hundreds or
> thousands of sites? I'm not a programmer so forgive me if the below is
> completely invalid.
>
Actually providing a work around isn't counter-productive is it? You can
argue the security concern either way. Having single accounts for
multiple functions and systems is also considered a vulnerability. Is
your goal security or XX-5288 as I got a little lost with your text
below...
> Reading through the posts I noticed this was based on the commons-net
> http://commons.apache.org/net/ (supports FTPS btw). commons-vfs sounds
> more like the right stuff http://commons.apache.org/vfs/ with support
> for FTP, local files, HTTP/HTTPS, SFTP, zip/jar/tar/gzip/bzip2 and
CIFS
> is in dev (see http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XX-3628). It also
> provides the URI formatting.
