hughes@ziggy.EDU (Ken Hughes) (12/19/89)
I'd like to set up some anonymous ftp accounts here but the docs I have on ftp don't seem to mention this. Can someone point me in the proper direction? (e-mail appreciated) Thanks, Ken hughes@ziggy.cmd.usf.edu
noel@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Bamf) (12/20/89)
In article <1300@ziggy.EDU> hughes@ziggy.cmd.usf.edu.UUCP (Ken Hughes) writes: >I'd like to set up some anonymous ftp accounts here but the docs >I have on ftp don't seem to mention this. Can someone point me >in the proper direction? (e-mail appreciated) > >Ken >hughes@ziggy.cmd.usf.edu This is so easy, its ridiculous. Just add a login entry for ftp. On our site, its the following, from /etc/passwd: ftp:xxxxxxxxxxxxx:74:74:Anonymous FTP,Anonymous,,:/src/ftp:/etc/ftponly the ftp daemon already knows about it, it just checks to see if it exists. The directory /src/ftp is out anonymous ftp directory. Yours will probably be different. FTP chroot's to that directory, so there must be a bin/ls and /etc/passwd in that directory, for the program to be able to do an ls, and to know who owns what. It is suggested that only a few necessary login's need be put into etc/passwd, like root and ftp (no passwords needed, as they are never actually used except by ftp) So, except for the login, you only need to make the bin and etc directory, cp ls to bin, and make a fake passwd file in etc. (and BTW, man ftpd will tell you most of this.) Noel -- /* "If you were a dragon, I'd give you a straw" ----You want it should sing too?----| lost.in.the.net.of.it.all Dis' claimer, dat claimer, to look | noel@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu [192.35.96.111] at em', you'd never know the diff. | "How many oranges in an orangutan?" */