Using the ECE Anonymous FTP Server

1. Restrictions
2. Anonymous Users
3. Local Users
   1. Download Areas
   2. Upload Areas
   3. Quotas

Restrictions

Unauthorized use of the ECE FTP server is prohibited.

Anonymous Users

Users may connect to the ECE ftp server at this address:

ftp.ece.ohio-state.edu

Any "modern" ftp client with the ability to support passive connections should work with this service.

Users should log in with a username of "anonymous" or "ftp", and it is requested that they submit their email address as their password.

All connections and transfers are logged.

To find a download area, look in the pub directory.

To find an upload area, contact the person you are trying to give the file to, and they will provide the necessary path.

Accounts

By default, no ECE users will have an account on the ECE FTP server.

Eligible ECE users who may request accounts on the server include faculty, staff and grad students specifically designated by a faculty as being responsible for maintaining a specific research area's FTP site. Ineligible ECE users: undergraduate students and graduate students who want to make personal use of the server.

Accounts will be created only as requested. Usernames will be set to match the user's ECE email address unless otherwise requested. Passwords will be set to match the site default for the ECE primary systems. Users should (and may be required to) change their password upon their first login, using the "passwd" command.

Accounts may access the ftp server via SSH only.

Download Areas: When an account is created, a link is created in the home directory called pub. This link points to the directory where users may place their files for others to find.

All files kept on the server for download should be compressed to save as much file storage space as possible. It is recommended that gzip, tar, and WinZip be used as the compressed/archiving utilities, but others may be used if they better fit a given users needs.

Files must be set to world readable for the anonymous user to download them. Directories must be world readable for the anonymous user to do an ls within them (this is something you may at times wish to disable), and must be world executable for the anonymous user to be able to cd into that directory and/or to extract any files which are contained therein.

Please note: the ftp server is not backed up. It is intended to hold copies of files for others to access... it is not intended to be used as an active data store.

Upload Areas: Anonymous uploads require extra security precautions. They will not be detailed in this open web document. If you need assisstance with your anonymous upload area, please contact site for all relevant details.

Quotas: There are no disk quotas on this server. It is expected that the 30GB of usable disk space assigned to this server can be shared by all the faculty and that it can be self policed. If all data is compressed and is only loaded on the server when it is being actively distributed, this should not be a problem.