Not strictly a Freeway question, but I’m having trouble finding answers elsewhere. One of the Sites I design is for a Uni Sports Club, and I am trying to find an “easy” way for a handful of student contributors, almost certainly 100% PC users, to upload the odd large file to my Mac.
If possible I want to give FTP Access to a specially created “blind” Account in order to receive fairly large files from named students. Normally, I only have two Accounts on my Mac, let’s call them Account #1 & Account #2. Account #1 is my secure Administrators Account, Account #2 is my own Standard everyday User Account. I have created Account #3, a third (empty) Standard Account for students to access via FTP. The FTP Access has been set up via Sharing Preferences and Airport Utility for my Time Capsule, and it has tested out OK, with full local, and external FTP access. All three Accounts are Password Protected with three different Passwords. I run an Intel Core Duo MBP, OSX 10.6, and my FTP client is Transmit.
As I understand it, one of the main purposes of creating Password protected separate Accounts on one OSX computer is that apart from the Public Folders, any given Account remains isolated in it’s own little Password protected private world, inaccessible from any other Account. In other words, none of the Folders on any of the “other” Accounts are accessible to me, on “my” Account, other than as Administrator via the Administrator Account.
Now, the problem I have is this. When Account #3 is accessed via Password Log-in, via FTP, all of the Account #3 folders and files, are, as we would expect, fully accessible. But, by navigating upwards through the Transmit drop down Menu, so are all the Standard Account #2 Folders, and so are all the Administrator Account #1 Folders, without any need to enter the individual Account Passwords. This is obviously unacceptable.
I have attempted to reduce access by varying Sharing Preferences Read & Write privileges, but have not managed to change anything. So, is there a solution? What am I doing wrong? Or is it inherently insoluble once FTP Access is granted?
Many thanks.
Neil Carter
Oxford UK
PS External FTP Access currently disabled, and NAT Port Mapping Services & Ports also disabled and closed !!!
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