topic Re: FTP without passwords in Operating System - HP-UX

FTP without passwords

APA — Tue, 23 May 2006 05:21:59 GMT

Help me pleaaaase!
Making FTP all users can access to the server without writing his passwords - only pressing the "Enter" key when is asking for a password.
What hell is it?

Re: FTP without passwords

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 23 May 2006 05:24:11 GMT

Shalom APA,

This is ill advised.

To do this, you null out the password entries in /etc/passwd

I'm sure I'll regret posting this.

PLEASE! Don't do it. Definitely don't do it on the Public Internet.

LDAP or ADS integration can accomplish this goal without compromising security.

SEP

Re: FTP without passwords

APA — Tue, 23 May 2006 05:28:59 GMT

NO! NO! NO!
All users HAS passwords in /etc/passwd and making telnet can't access without writing his passwords correctly!

Re: FTP without passwords

MarkSyder — Tue, 23 May 2006 05:36:36 GMT

My understanding is this: users can ftp without using a password but need a password for telnet. Correct?

If so, I suspect you are ftping to/from a server which allows anonymous ftp. If you can confirm that my understanding of the problem is correct, we can help you to fix it (unless it was set up for anonymous ftp for a good reason).

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

Re: FTP without passwords

APA — Tue, 23 May 2006 05:57:15 GMT

Yes. Users can ftp without using a password but need a password for telnet.

FTP from Windows to UNIX machine.

Re: FTP without passwords

MarkSyder — Tue, 23 May 2006 07:16:05 GMT

It looks as though you're set up for anonymous ftp. Go into SAM -> Networking and Communications -> Network Services and look for the Anonymous FTP line. I expect it will say enabled. But think carefully before you change this: was it set up this way for a reason?

Mark

Re: FTP without passwords

APA — Wed, 24 May 2006 05:20:08 GMT

I did it.
Anonymous FTP is disable.

Re: FTP without passwords

Stanislav Bocinec — Wed, 24 May 2006 08:13:43 GMT

Hi,
when you want to have empty password enabled for ftp acces,you could use this method:
$ cat >> $HOME/.netrc
machine your.ftpserver.com
login username
password yourpassword

and now you don't have to write passwd when accessing your ftp.
s.

Re: FTP without passwords

Julián Aimar — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:23:26 GMT

Hi, your solution is:

edit $HOME/.netrc
machine login password

chmod 700 $HOME/.netrc

suerte!!!

JEA