Disabling Anonymouis FTP

[PatRoy]

Hi.

Can anyone tell me how we *disable* anonymous FTP access on hpux 11.11? Just remove the 'ftp' user? Then what if we wanted to re-enable it?


What's the proper way?

thank you very much.

[skt_skt]

man ftpd

In order to permit anonymous FTP, there must be an entry in the
passwd(4) database for an account named ftp. The password field
should be *, the group membership should be guest, and the login shell
should be /usr/bin/false. For example (assuming the guest group ID is
10):

ftp:*:500:10:anonymous ftp:/home/ftp:/usr/bin/false

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Simply comment-out the 'tftp' line in '/etc/inetd.conf' and restart the 'inetd' daemon:

# /usr/sbin/inetd -c

Regards!

...JRF...

[Steven Schweda]

> Simply comment-out the 'tftp' line in
> '/etc/inetd.conf' [...]

For the record, anonymous FTP is different
from trivial FTP (TFTP). It's offered by the
normal FTP server, not by the TFTP server.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

>Steven: For the record, anonymous FTP is different from trivial FTP (TFTP). It's offered by the normal FTP server, not by the TFTP server.

Yes, you are correct, of course. I need to learn to read :-)

Disregard my orginal answer. See also the 'ftpaccess(4)' manpages, particularly the 'guestserver' configuration.

Regards

...JRF...

[Bill Hassell]

The very easiest way to disable anonymous FTP is to run SAM and turn the service off. SAM will take care of all the details. Start SAM and select: Networking and Communications --> Network Services --> then disable the two put and get services.

[J. Bravo]

Good morning:

You can do it creating the /etc/ftpd/ftpusers file and adding a line that exactly match the user account name ftp.

For more information "man ftpusers"

Regards;

J. Bravo.

[PatRoy]

Indeed, easiest way was with SAM. Thanks folks! Appreciate.