Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp

[Alexander Goldstein <agoldste@eecs.uic.edu>]

On Sat, 4 May 1996, David M Smith wrote:

> >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com> writes:
> 
> Definitely agree with this.  It would be nice to have an anon-ftp
> package which would set up ~ftp as appropriate (but not as extremely
> as Mark suggests!)
> 
There is already such thing out there.

[alexandria] ~>dpkg -s wu-ftpd 
Package: wu-ftpd 
Status: install ok installed 
Priority: optional 
Section: net 
Maintainer: Peter Tobias <tobias@et-inf.fho-emden.de> 
Version: 2.4-20 
Depends: libc5, netbase (>=2.00) 
Conffiles: 
 /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess b3b52d3d211dca606a8a3bfd8c830c7d
 /etc/ftpd/ftpconversions 4f3ffcef4b8cd176574877af66b57439
 /etc/cron.monthly/wu-ftpd 59b64f3ca5c2819b721ccbe32aac93d5 
Description: A powerful replacement for the standard ftpd
 wu-ftpd (Washington University ftp server) is a replacement ftp server
 for Unix systems.  Besides supporting the ftp protocol defined in RFC 959,
 it adds the following features: 
    o logging of transfers . 
    o logging of commands
    o on the fly compression and archiving
    o classification of users on type and location
    o per class limits
    o per directory upload permissions
    o restricted guest accounts
    o system wide and per directory messages. 
    o directory alias
    o cdpath
    o filename filter
                                                              
Also the package sets up anonimous ftp (I think you have to remove the 
ftp directory and ftp user for automatic configuration to work.).