Ftpd and man pages

[Erik Trulsson]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:21:00AM -0700, Jon Falconer wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-Release. The man page for ftdp.conf shows some
> nice features that I am trying to use (e.g. user classification and
> homedir.) But the man page for ftpd indicates that it does not use an
> ftpd.conf file, which is probably why those features are not working.
> The man page for ftpusers also show more features but the man page for
> ftpd again says that users listed in ftpusers are only denied access.
> I'm just using the base system ftpd server. Why do the base system man
> pages seem to show more capablities than the ftpd server supports? What
> ftpd server matchs with the man pages for ftpusers and ftpd.conf?

There are actually two ftp daemons included in the base system.
One is the ftpd that you have been using, the other is lukemftpd.
I think it is lukemftpd that uses ftpd.conf.




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