ITworld.com – Often referred to as a “chroot jail” or a “padded cell” because users cannot escape from the directories into which they are put when they log in, the basic concept of a “chroot” (change ...

Running a public FTP site securely can be difficult. Taking full advantage of the security features supported by your FTP server application of choice can be a chore, and even then there's a good ...

Okay,<BR>I'm writing a Perl script to automatically backup files from a remote server to my machine. I've figured out how to get Perl to invoke FTP, and for FTP in ...