Can I hide my Login info?

Hi Old Timers,
I really need your help!
How can I share some of my web pages and given freely to friends without exposing my own User Name & Password used in Login to my web site? In other words. How can I tell my friends just to click open an image file name and without them knowing my User Name & Password?

I would like be able to assign a unique login for accessing my subweb content which would be difference from my normal login info used to author my web site. Then I would give those individual that I want to have access, the unique login info and all they could do is to view or read it.

This is how I get the unique URL: Select your files name and make it darker high-lighted then choose Commands and Copy URL. BUT I don't want smartFTP to include my password or if still possible never include my User Name also in that unique URL created. Is there a provision to hide them all together?

Sincerely & TIA,
Rino

You need somebody to host your website and a www.xyz.com name pointing to it. You upload files with SmartFTP to your website. This operation is passworded so that others can't change them. Once you have installed the files there, folks can see them from the internet. If you want to protect a file or files so that others can't get at them it is normally achieved by some sort of passwording scheme - but that is seriously beyond the scope of this forum.

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Hi Dbarro,
I'm actually using my DSL FREE 30MB Personal Web space for my web site: http://www.apexglobalnet.com/features.htm

I could easily Up & DownLoading my files. And Yes, it could be for general public ONLY if I Email my unique URL to them because they must know which folders and go down to several sub-directories and know my file name. But with my unique URL --- they just click it. My URL as created in SmartFTP is 100% sure fired. My only problem is how I could hide my password in all URL created. My URL look like this: ftp://username:password@servername.net/ ... pytime.htm

My server support techs said my friends could click and open my files and without my password in my URL BUT 2 weeks have already passed and they still scratching their heads. We've tested several URL combinations and nothing that works.

Regards,
Rino

I'm not entirely sure I understand where SmartFTP fits into your plans here.

a) If you want people to point their browser and click on a file you can do that. If you wish to password protect it then you could hide it behind a secure layer - but I suspect the host you're using may not permit that. A softer way would be to have an obscure path on your site that required a password to be entered when the link was clicked - this could be done with a post form and php (but isn't particularly secure).

b) If your folks are using SmartFTP (or another package) then you could ask the host admin to set you up an FTP login group that permitted read only, chgrp the files to that group and then chmod them to 640.

I suspect your limitation here will be the host that you're using. It's not one I know, but many - if not most - of the free hosts are very limited in the facilities offered.

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Hi Dbarro,
You said: "A softer way would be to have an obscure path on your site that required a password to be entered when the link was clicked - this could be done with a post form and php."
I ask: How could this be done? If done, do everybody if they receive my URL see my Login info --- especially my password?

I'm also contacting my host server if they can set you up an FTP login group that permitted read only BUT are you 100% sure nobody can see my password and no need to input in my URL? Another BUT, my SmartFTP program automatically put my password in my URL. This is where SmartFTP come in --- do you know a built-in feature that it can hide it? I'm tweaking the Anonymous choice and it's only gray-out my Login info but the same URL come out complete my Login info.

Is this a first kind of a question being ask here? What do most people used their SmartFTP Program for? I used mine to uploaded .htm greetings and I just send them my URL and they just click open in their PC which everybody has a Browser, they can also view my photo albums, etc.

I also tried downloading with SmartFTP and it's worked BUT I chose not because I already have the same files and back-up in 2 other PC and in CD's. I already learned a hard lesson that all if not most --- if that server or ISP when bankrupt and everybody files lose with them.

I liked the program and very easy to use. Do you've a link for a FTTP Program for my quick testing?

TIA,
Rino

Hi,

Sorry - this is a bit long.

>You said: "A softer way would be to have an obscure path on your site >that required a password to be entered when the link was clicked - this >could be done with a post form and php."
>I ask: How could this be done? If done, do everybody if they receive my >URL see my Login info --- especially my password?

POST forms and php details are really off-limits for this group. You need a host that supports php (which most free ones don't) and then a relatively simple script to check what password has been entered and allow or deny access. Perhaps a Google search on PHP and POST would help - good luck with this.

>I'm also contacting my host server if they can set you up an FTP login >group that permitted read only BUT are you 100% sure nobody can see >my password and no need to input in my URL? Another BUT, my >SmartFTP program automatically put my password in my URL. This is >where SmartFTP come in --- do you know a built-in feature that it can >hide it? I'm tweaking the Anonymous choice and it's only gray-out my >Login info but the same URL come out complete my Login info.

Again we're going beyond the reasonable limits for this forum here. The idea of setting up a group is that users can have their own ID/password but all belong to the same group. The group has some rights (in this case, read rights) so anyone logging in has that privilege. They wouldn't have your password - just one of their own.

>Is this a first kind of a question being ask here? What do most people >used their SmartFTP Program for? I used mine to uploaded .htm >greetings and I just send them my URL and they just click open in their >PC which everybody has a Browser, they can also view my photo >albums, etc.

I'm sure many folk upload files for their website (either public or private) and doubtless countless other uses. FTP isn't a particularly friendly thing to set up - particularly FTP servers - but SmartFTP is pretty impressive as an FTP client.

>I also tried downloading with SmartFTP and it's worked BUT I chose not >because I already have the same files and back-up in 2 other PC and in >CD's. I already learned a hard lesson that all if not most --- if that server >or ISP when bankrupt and everybody files lose with them.

>I liked the program and very easy to use. Do you've a link for a FTTP >Program for my quick testing?

- Depends how technical you feel like being. You could convert an old PC to run Linux and ProFTP. I wouldn't advise running an FTP server on the Internet though until you're sure it's properly secured.

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