RE: Clarification, RE: IFS directory visibility from FTP

[CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

James,

I'm thinking trying to do this at the client side is going to be a bad idea.
Simply because AFAIK, no authority info is sent from the server.

You'd be better served by doing this at the server side for any and all
clients.  You might be able to catch the DIR or LS command via the FTP exit
point and interject your own directory listing stream back to the client.

On the other hand, you might have to write your own FTP server instead.

Charles


> -----Original Message-----
> From: James H H Lampert [mailto:jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 11:39 AM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Clarification, RE: IFS directory visibility from FTP
> 
> 
> 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?
> 
> --
> JHHL
> 
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