FTP Questions

[Stephen Hayter_1]

Hello,

I'm currently trying to upgrade our system (11i) with wu-ftp 2.6.1 and am having a few problems! Can anybody help with the questions below? I think some are a bit basic, so sorry for that. I've done quite a lot of searching on these and have found some info from the forums but not quite enough.

1. On HP-UX is the FTP server and client functionality provided by the same process, i.e does the daemon do it all?

2. How do I configure the way an ftp client behaves? I know there is some configuration for the ftpd in inetd.conf for the server side, but how about client set-up?

3. In trying to configure guest ftp users, I have set-up an ftpaccess file with the 'guest-root' and 'guestgroup' clauses. However it appears that the system isn't using them and the guest user is always chroot'ed according to the 'system-wide' passwd file and not the local ftp-guest passwd file. Any there any good guides anywhere for using these clauses (not the /./ hack though)?

Many thank

[Ian Dennison_1]

Question 3 - have you configured the ftpd to use the 'ftpacccess' config file? Check /etc/inetd.conf, ensure the -a option is specified for 'ftpd'.

Share and Enjoy! Ian

[Stephen Hayter_1]

Yes, it's definetly using the ftpaccess file. I checked this by adding a greeting message.

[RikTytgat]

Hi,

1. No, there are 2 binaries:
- /usr/lbin/ftpd : the server (started by inetd)
- /usr/bin/ftp : the client

2. You can add some ftp commands to the file ~/.netrc . These commands will be executed when the user starts the ftp client session.


Bye,
Rik

[Santosh Nair_1]

1. The ftp server is ftpd and the default ftp client is ftp (note the missing d). These are two different programs.

2.Not sure what kind of customizations you want to make on the ftp client. But other than setting up a .netrc file, there isn't much you can do. However, you can use another ftp client such as ncftp or lftp (search your local porting archives) which have lots of configuration options.

3. Make sure you have the -a switch on the ftpd entry in inetd.conf. This enables the use of the ftpaccess file. There are alot of configuration options for the ftp daemon (ftpd) with the ftp access file. See ftpaccess(4) for more details.

-Santosh

[Stephen Hayter_1]

Thanks everyone.

Re Q2: The reason for wanting to look at reconfiguring the ftp client is tied up with a previous posting I made regarding EPSV being used (see 11th June 2002) which is causing my a headache!

Re Q3: I've done a lot of nosing through man pages and looking at examples for configuring guest ftp access and am sure I have done this okay except for ignoring my local passwd file. As well as that, I know it is also using the system-wide version of 'ls' which it shouldn't.