Re: serving up files as a non-root user

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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 03:00:52 +0000 (UTC)

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Benjamin Ylvisaker <benjaminy@alumni.cmu.edu> wrote:
> I'm not sure this is the right forum for this question, but anyway:
>
> I'm a graduate student and I have a workstation in my office for which
> I do not have root access. I have some largish files on that computer
> that I would like to serve over the internet so that I can easily
> access them wherever I go. Is there some good way to go about this?
> I looked for a simple http server that can be installed and run
> without root privileges, but I haven't had any luck yet.

You should be able to run a web server without root permission if you
properly configure it to use a port higher than 1024 (which would have to
be included in the URL, since it would be non-standard).

Then if that box is not on an unrestricted public IP, you would need to
have admin forward that port into your IP.

Or you could get a Unix shell account somewhere that includes web space
(like sdf.lonestar.org alias www.freeshell.org). As long as you have
permission to distribute such file.

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