I'm using an old version, 1.6 of NetBSD and I'm having a devil of a time setting up an anonymous ftp server. I've read the man pages on ftpd, ftpd.conf, ftpchroot, inetd, inetd.conf and ftpusers. I can ftp using a normal user but can't get anonymous to work. Do I make a user called guest or ftp or anonymous with group guest? I've tried all these. guest user fails after password (I have no password set, but would like ftp users to use their e-mail address. anonymous fails before it gets to the password prompt. I restart inetd (/usr/execlib/ftpd) after every change. Does anyone have a working example of their ftpd.conf, ftpchroot, ftpuser, passwd entries? I can post what I have if that'll help figure this out.
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FTP anonymous file server.
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ChristTrekker
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Well, don't keep us in suspense, what's the solution?
Your mileage may vary, but this is basically all I did.
Uncomment these 2 lines in inetd.conf
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -ll
ftp stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -ll
Sample ftpd.conf file.
checkportcmd all
homedir /home/ftp
chroot guest /home/ftp
limit guest 50 ftptoomany
limit localguest -1
Sample of ftpusers. Add ftp user and anonymous user.
root deny
toor deny
ftp allow
anonymous allow guest (I'm not sure this is really needed)
* deny
Create the root directory you specified in ftpd.conf. The directory should be owner "root" and group "wheel".
I used this command while logged in a root.
mkdir /home/ftp
Create the user called ftp. Don't set a password for the user and don't give it a login shell.
useradd -b /home/ftp -d /home/ftp -g guest -s /sbin/nologin ftp
The entry in your password file should look like this.
ftp:*:1001:31::/home/ftp:/sbin/nologin
Restart inetd.
inetd restart
If all goes well you should now be able to login as "anonymous"
Uncomment these 2 lines in inetd.conf
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -ll
ftp stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -ll
Sample ftpd.conf file.
checkportcmd all
homedir /home/ftp
chroot guest /home/ftp
limit guest 50 ftptoomany
limit localguest -1
Sample of ftpusers. Add ftp user and anonymous user.
root deny
toor deny
ftp allow
anonymous allow guest (I'm not sure this is really needed)
* deny
Create the root directory you specified in ftpd.conf. The directory should be owner "root" and group "wheel".
I used this command while logged in a root.
mkdir /home/ftp
Create the user called ftp. Don't set a password for the user and don't give it a login shell.
useradd -b /home/ftp -d /home/ftp -g guest -s /sbin/nologin ftp
The entry in your password file should look like this.
ftp:*:1001:31::/home/ftp:/sbin/nologin
Restart inetd.
inetd restart
If all goes well you should now be able to login as "anonymous"
