Security

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# 3.6. Security

The Security Panel

This panel allows you to specify various security options. The Noretrieves window allows certain files or directories to be blocked from downloading. Hit the Add button and select the file to be blocked. Select an entry and hit Remove to take the file off the list.

Number of allowed failed logins causes connections to be closed after the specified number of login failures.

Checking Permit SITE GROUP allows users to change the group they belong to with the `SITE `GROUP`` command.

Permission to use the chmod, delete, overwrite, rename and umask commands can be extended or denied to anonymous, guest and/or real users.

Anonymous users are expected to supply their email address as a password. The degree of enforcement can be controlled.

No

  There is no checking of the given password.

trivial

  The password must contain an @ character.

RFC822

  The password must be in the form of a valid address.

If the Enforce box is checked, logins failing the test will be denied; otherwise a warning will be issued.

In the screenshot, the `/bin` and `/sbin` directories and the `/etc/passwd` file are blocked from downloads. Connections are dropped after 5 failures, `SITE `GROUP`` is forbidden, commands are forbidden to anonymous users and allowed for guest and real accounts. Anonymous users submitting non-RFC-compliant email addresses are warned.

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