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Re: Setting up Anon FTP?



Just install wu-ftpd and type "addftpuser"

Richardson,Anthony wrote:
> 
> Maybe installing wu-ftpd will solve the problem then?  I was trying
> to set things up by man according to the man page.  I'm still
> curious as to what I need to set up for chroot to work.
> 
> Tony
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Nielsen [SMTP:nielsen@primenet.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 1998 2:44 PM
> To: Alan Su
> Cc: Ossama Othman; Richardson,Anthony; debian-user
> Subject: Re: Setting up Anon FTP?
> 
> I was having the same problem (wu-ftpd, hamm distribution) and sent a
> message to the list a few days ago with no responses.
> 
> After seeing Ossama's message, I copied the lib files to /home/ftp/lib as
> suggested.  It fixed it for me.  chroot works also, by the way.
> 
> I tried static linking, but that didn't work, although I would think that
> it should.
> 
> Bob
> 
> On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Alan Su wrote:
> 
> > Ossama Othman wrote (Thu, 26 Feb 1998 12:31:56 -0500 (EST) ):
> > |>Why are you trying to chroot to /bin/ls?  The ftpd daemon
> automatically
> > |>does a chroot when someone logs in as "anonymous" or "ftp."  Here is
> an
> > |>excerpt from the ftpd man page.  Did you follow what it says?
> > |>
> >
> > Tony was trying to diagnose the problem, the same problem I'm having.
> > Namely, ls depends on libc (at least) and simply copying the library
> > to the ~ftp/lib directory doesn't work.  The man page mentions nothing
> > about this, leading me to believe that it assumes that ls is
> > statically linked.
> >
> > -alan
> >
> >
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