Anonymous FTP

[Sundar_7]

Hi all,

What is the way to enable and disable

Anonymous FTP logins from the command line.

Though I can do it from SAM but I want to

do it from the command line.

What should I do >

Help me at the earliest

Sundar

[Thomas Kollig]

Hi!

To permit anonymous FTP, there must be an entry in the passwd file for an account named ftp. If you remove it, you will disable anonymous FTP.
See man pages of ftpd.

Bye,

Thomas

[Brian Hackley]

I am logged into an 11.0 system, and verified that the ftpd man page describes the steps that you need to take. I won't paste them in here. I know some sysadmins don't like to use SAM, and you might have your own reasons for not using it. However, I would like to point out thatmany customers and HP Support use it to enable anonymous FTP; it works consistantly and covers all the bases. Hope this helps!

[Bruce Regittko_1]

Hi Sundar,

Yes, you can either remove the ftp entry in /etc/passwd (preferred) or rename ftp to something else like FTP. This will disable anonymous ftp.

Brian, until the SAM Team comes up with a non-interactive version of sam, our shell scripts will contain traditional command lines.

--Bruce

[Bruce Regittko_1]

Hi again,

I forgot the simplest solution in my last message: add an entry to /etc/ftpd/ftpusers. This file contains a list of users who are not allow to access the host via ftp. I just tested it with the user "anonymous" and it prevented anonymous ftp logins.

--Bruce