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FTP Server Configuration and User Isolation in IIS - Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008

FTP Server Configuration and User Isolation in IIS 6/7.5 - Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 Here I am briefing some simple steps to configure FTP server with user isolation for data security, 1. Go to Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager, 2. Right click on sites on "Sites" and select "add ftpsite"from the drop down, 3. Fill details like, FTP site name: test Physical : any designated local directory (Eg:- K:\ftproot) and click Next, 4. Configure binding and ssl settings as shown below, 5. Configure authorization and authentication information as shown below, Select authentication type as "basic" and click on finish.

How to change username and home directory in Ubuntu

Here I am listing the steps in order to change the username and home directory of a a user in Ubuntu, Step-1 We need to check that if the username that we are going to change has been used by any of the system processes, if any we have to kill them first, #  killall -u "Present Username" Step-2 Once we flushed all the running services behalf of the User, we need to execute the below command in order to take effect the changes, # usermod -l "New Username" "Present Username" Note: You will get a list of useful functions about usermod by typing $man usermod command Step - 3 This time we are going to change the group name associated with the user, #groupmod -n "New Username" "Present Username" Step - 4 In order to complete these settings we need to change the name of the user home directory, #  usermod -d /home/new -m new where the "new" will be our New Username Step -5 The...