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Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by SahAssar on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @04:51PM (#27899150)
> Webserver access permissions vs. ftp server permissions for example?

What I'm saying is: is there a meaningful difference? Both need to bind to a port that is privileged and read files from the served directory. There is no difference between a ftpserver and a webserver from a permissions/privilege perspective.

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Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by JackGreyhat on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @05:08PM (#27899358)
Well, that's right. There is no meaningful difference in the sense that they both have to serve files from a storage backend, over a port to a frontend. I was comparing ftp folder permissions with webserver htaccess permissions. What I really ment was access control.
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Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by SahAssar on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @05:21PM (#27899535)
Gotcha, but htaccess is specific to one server (apache). You can leave that out for basic things for basic use cases (just set read/write as you would for a normal unix user) and for more granular things you need to configure FTP just like you need HTTP.
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