topic Re: Restrict 'anonymous FTP' in Operating System - HP-UX

Restrict 'anonymous FTP'

Amod Phadke — Thu, 24 Oct 2002 02:25:42 GMT

Is there any way I can restrict an anonymous FTP user from deleting the files in a directory ? But the user should be allowed to put (create) files in the same directory.

Re: Restrict 'anonymous FTP'

Michael Tully — Thu, 24 Oct 2002 02:38:20 GMT

You could probably get away with using restricted ftp as opposed to anonymous ftp. Have a look at the man page for 'ftpaccess' in the section that describes delete.

delete no guest
overwrite yes guest,anonymous

Re: Restrict 'anonymous FTP'

Amod Phadke — Thu, 24 Oct 2002 02:45:23 GMT

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your reply but I am using HP-UX 10.20 and there is no 'ftpaccess' procision in HP.

Thanks

Re: Restrict 'anonymous FTP'

Michael Tully — Thu, 24 Oct 2002 03:02:36 GMT

Have a look here:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Networking/FTP/wu_ftpd-2.6.1/

Re: Restrict 'anonymous FTP'

S.K. Chan — Thu, 24 Oct 2002 03:13:48 GMT

Imposing restriction on an anonymous FTP access is (in my opinion) rather pointless. You can't restrict it as such in the same directory. The closest you may get is implement an anonymous FTP sub-login, ie another level of authentication within the already active ftp session thus bringing the user to a specific designated directory defines in ~ftp/etc/passwd but it does not gives you the flexibility plus there is a lot of individual sub-accounts you need to setup. I do not even want to suggest that solution.

Re: Restrict 'anonymous FTP'

Amod Phadke — Thu, 24 Oct 2002 06:09:24 GMT

Hi Michael,

I was able to setup 'wu-ftpd' successfully with all the features I wanted. Thanks a lot for your help.

AMOD.