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 ...

What is FTP Protocol? FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is, as its name indicates, a protocol for transferring files. The implementation of FTP dates from 1971, when a file transfer system (described in ...

A security warning has been issued by the CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University advising users of the Washington University FTP daemon (WU-FTPD) for Unix and Linux systems that their ...

Note: Releases 6.11 through Version 8 support the FILENAME statement with the FTP access method, which specifies file attributes for file transfer. Releases prior to 6.11 do not support the FILENAME ...