anonymous ftp

[sycncs]

I have created an anonymous ftp account.
But It did not prompt me to enter my email address, instead, it ask for "Send ident as password".

I am also unable to ftp files using this login, citing permission denied for all types of files.

Is there something I missed out while creating?

[Steven E. Protter]

There is more to creating an anonymous ftp server than merely creating an anonymous account.

You need to set up the server itself to accept anonmyous logins. From what you say, I don't think thats been done yet. I'm going to include a document and give you two outlines on how to do it.

You can go into sam and use the menus under networking and enable anonymous ftp.

There is also probably(I did this in class only) a variable for enabling anonymous ftp server in the /etc/rc.config.d/ directory.

Its documented, probably named anon or something and you just change th control variable from 0 to 1, restart the box and you have an anonmyous ftp server. Then you can start testing behavior.

Also, based on your symptoms, you might want to try restoring anything you did to /etc/ftpd files that you did, because I think you might have made a mistake, which caused you to lose non-anonymous ftp services.

Here is a link to a setup document that should help you work this out.

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000062943019


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[Stefan Farrelly]

The only files your anonymous account can see are those in the home directory you set for it when you created the account. If you want it to be able to see other files then move its home directory to there or change the permissions on the files, or the group your anonymous account is in so it can read those files. Its usual permission rules.

The login is correct - it wont say enter your email address, it will ask for the password and the normal procedure is to enter your email address as the password - but its not compulsory - you could enter anything you like for a password - unless youve set the password for the anonymous account to something specific.

[Steven E. Protter]

Here is a more current though slightly more general doc.

The 10.X setup in the first document is close to what you need for 11.X

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000062683993

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