Re: Keep alive inactive FTP user account

Why do you even need to do a directory listing or attempt a file transfer?  Just connecting to the account via FTP should be sufficient to meet the policy requirements to keep the account active.

 

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From: ml-errorsfatcity.com" target="_blank">ml-errorsfatcity.com [mailto: ml-errorsfatcity.com" target="_blank">ml-errorsfatcity.com] On Behalf Of john love
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:21 AM

To: Multiple recipients of list ODTUG-WEBDEV-L

Subject: RE: Keep alive inactive FTP user account

How about a scheduled job that would "ATTEMPT" to perform an FTP every week. The FTP would only work if the file existed on the server but the account would be monitored as active due to the weekly attempt of the FTP.

 

Cron scheduled job to execute every week or month.

FTP login script executed

Look for file on server

File not found close FTP login

File found, perform FTP

logout.

 

Just a suggestion.

 

John Love

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From: gmail.com" href="mailto:das.amlangmail.com" target="_blank">Amlan Das

To: fatcity.com" href="mailto:ODTUG-WEBDEV-Lfatcity.com" target="_blank">Multiple recipients of list ODTUG-WEBDEV-L

Sent: 2/5/2008 12:12:48 PM

Subject: Keep alive inactive FTP user account

Hi All

I need help to a problem I face. I have described my solution and need some feedback if this is going to work or if any better solutions.

I am not sure if this is going to work or just logging into FTP server and doing a directory listing every month through a job will also work.

 

Problem description:

 ;   Every three months or 6 months, FTP user account is used to transfer a feeder file to a remote server through pl/sql packages as

    part of business. But the FTP user account expires if inactive for three months as set in the security policy. The security folks will not

   change the security policy. My goal is to keep the FTP user account alive even when there is no business activity.

 

My Solution:

    I log into FTP user account every month running as an Oracle Job and FTP a dummy file to the server.

   This will ensure some activity every month and will keep the account alive. But this also means removing the dummy file each time.

 

I am sending this out to multiple groups, hoping somebody will provide some feddback.

 

Thanks and regards

Amlan