topic Re: ftp error in Operating System - HP-UX

ftp error

himacs — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:58:18 GMT

HI admins,

Last week i have added banner '/etc/issue' in ftpaccess file and flag -a in ftp line inetd.conf.After that application team complained
not able to login thro ftp.
First i created /etc/shells and included shells.
But no use.Then i removed -a flag from inetd.conf.Its worked.Please tell me why -a caused problem.

And i want to restrict some particular shells from using ftp.How to do that

regards
himacs

Re: ftp error

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:05:15 GMT

Shalom himacs,

I did a quick man page on ftpd and it shows that -a says to enable the use of the ftpaccess file, which is the default.

This is probably just a quirk in the implementation, because of course this is the default behavior. I guess you might consider it a bug.

SEP

Re: ftp error

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:07:03 GMT

Hi:

> Please tell me why -a caused problem.

This switch enables use of the '/etc/ftpd/ftpaccess' configuration file. Do you have one? What does it contain?

> And i want to restrict some particular shells from using ftp.How to do that

Configure '/etc/shells' to only specify the shells you want to function with FTP. By default, if '/etc/shells' isn't present, you have:

/sbin/sh
/usr/bin/sh
/usr/bin/rsh
/usr/bin/ksh
/usr/bin/rksh
/usr/bin/csh
/usr/bin/keysh

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: ftp error

himacs — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:28:50 GMT

Hi JRF , SEP

Thanx for the responses..

my ftpaccess file contains below lines..

class all real,guest,anonymous *

limit all 10 Any /etc/msgs/msg.dead

readme README* login
readme README* cwd=*

message /welcome.msg login
message .message cwd=*

compress yes all
tar yes all

log commands real
log transfers anonymous,real inbound,outbound

shutdown /etc/shutmsg

email user@hostname

banner /etc/issue

regards
himacs

Re: ftp error

himacs — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:41:29 GMT

Hi,

Syslog shown below line while application team were trying to access ftp.
ACCESS DENIED (not in any class)

what does it mean...

regards
himacs

Re: ftp error

Hakki Aydin Ucar — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:49:01 GMT

check this one:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=630481

Re: ftp error

Michael Steele_2 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:08:21 GMT

Hi

Check your /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess file for the user. If there, paste into a response.

Re: ftp error

Raj D. — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:19:36 GMT

himacs,

Looks like your /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess file is having wrong entry: check the file:

- Also adding -a to inetd.conf is normal to activate use of ftpaccess file:

check:
-------------
Enabling/Disabling the ftpaccess File :

To enable the /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess file, specify the -a option for the ftp entry in the /etc/inetd.conf file. For example,

ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd -a -l -d

To disable the /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess file, specify the -A option for the ftp entry in the /etc/inetd.conf file. For example,

ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd -A -l -d
------------

Hth,
Raj.