Re: Clarification, RE: IFS directory visibility from FTP

Tangential.

So you want to make a custom FTP client to access a server.  And the
benefits of this client will be that if your users are too stupid to type
in 'ftp' from a DOS command line then they won't be able to see directories
that are not authorized to?  This is used as an additional security
feature?

If I am right, I still suggest fixing it on the server and not on the
client.

James, I hope I am not coming off crude, (especially after my last email) I
am just trying to understand.

Rob Berendt
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Group Dekko Services, LLC
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PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com


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Actually, I'm not all that concerned with restricting users with "any
arbitrary" FTP client from even seeing things they don't have access to;
I'm more interested in restricting users within *our* FTP client from
seeing things they don't have access to.

In the QSYS file system, we have a different way to get a list of
libraries the user can access, and so only those libraries show up in the
GUI. But is there something I can set within an FTP session to hide such
files and directories, or some simple, quickly executed command I can
issue programmatically through an FTP connection, that would allow me to
detect a lack of authority and suppress the obect from appearing in the
list?

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JHHL


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