Re: wu-ftpd

[Bob Clark <rlclark@penn.com>]

I did the same thing you're doing and had problems too.  Then I
discovered "addftpuser".  Either delete or rename your ftp tree
(/home/ftp?) and run addftpuser as root.  All the required files, links,
and libraries will be automatically setup for you.  Then you can
populate the new tree with files that you want to be made available to
ftp users.

--Bob

Rob MacWilliams wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to set up ftpd.  The man pages suggest wu-ftpd, so that's what I'm using.  I've gone down
> the wu man page and set my server up according to it's recomendation.  The only problem I'm having
> is with anonymous users and ls.  When I connect using loopback, login using anonymous and try
> ls, I get no output.  Only the following shows up:
> 
> ftp> ls
> 200 PORT command successful.
> 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
> 226 Transfer complete.
> ftp>
> 
> this should show the the pub sub-dir at least.
> 
> Accounts that I have setup for testing purposes and existing accounts seem to work.  Should I have
> removed the crypted password from /etc/passwd?  I do have a copy of passwd and group in
> /home/ftp/etc without passwords in them.  ls has also been copied to /home/ftp/bin, as suggested
> by man wu-ftpd.
> 
> If I know the filename beforehand, I can upload and download as expected. I just seems that ls doesn't
> work.
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> Thanks
> 
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> "Time is the best teacher, unfortunately it kills all of it's students"
> 
> Rob MacWilliams   robmacw@cl-sys.com
> N9NPU