Re: Where does pure-ftpd store files when anonymous logs in?
On Thu, 2025-07-10 at 19:09 +0200, john doe wrote:
> On 7/10/25 18:58, hw wrote:
> > On Thu, 2025-07-10 at 16:28 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > > On Thu Jul 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM BST, hw wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Right. Anonymous logins are allowed and I have created a system account
> > > > 'ftp', and it still doesn't work. It keeps asking for a password when
> > > > trying to log in as 'anonymous' or 'ftp'.
> > >
> > > Conventionally, when logging into an anonymous ftp server, as a user, at
> > > least in my experience, you would provide your email address as the
> > > password. Try that? (Or a fake email?)
> >
> > Right again. Yet when you use filezilla with pure-ftpd running on
> > Fedora, you can see that there is no password request showing up in the
> > logging output in filezilla for anonymous logins. It's as the man page
> > says.
> >
> > When running it on Debian, filezilla shows a password request for
> > anonymous logins, and the login fails. This is not what the man page
> > says. The ftp user doesn't have a password anyway. Apparently, Debians
>
> Look at the config on both distros and see what's different.
I did :)
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