anonymous user

[Manuales]

Hi , if i am using anonymous user for accessing to a customer server remote .. can i run ls being as anonymous user into the remote server? do i have limits as anonymous user?

Thanks.

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom Manuales,

That depends on the user setup.

I normally configure my servers to not permit any guest or anonymous users at the command prompt. This does not mean they don't exist, because they do from the concept of a web user and such.

If I were to set up you a low privilege user on one system, to grant priviledges on another system, I'd have to set up another similar user. How powerful that user is depends entirely on how I set the user up.

Summary:It depends.

I do certainly hope that there are very strict limits on what an anonymous user can do.

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[Manuales]

if i'm doing a transfer and into ftp command appears the following:

550 file.csv: Access is denied.

why?
could be because into remote server i do not have permisssions for writting?

thx

[A. Clay Stephenson]

If you are able to ftp to a host as user anonymous and login then ftp has been configured for anonymous use. The next question is are you trying to do a get or a put? If you are trying to do a put then user anonymous must have write permission in the target directory. You could also be restricted by the ftp access file so even if you do have write permission, you may still not be able to put files. Ftp can also restrict gets even if you have read permission in the source directory and have read permission for the source file. Normally, anonymous ftp when enabled at all is very restricted.

[spex]

> could be because into remote server i do not have permisssions for writting?

Correct.

PCS

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

By default anonymous ftp is in hpux disabled. It can be quickly enabled with sam.

Note that this is a risky thing to do from the security standpoint.

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