FreeBSD 6.3, ftpd and crappy clients

[Wojciech Puchar]

> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff  767 Feb 22 20:11 .cshrc
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff  248 Feb 22 20:11 .login
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff  158 Feb 22 20:11 .login_conf
> -rw-------  1 tedm  staff  373 Feb 22 20:11 .mail_aliases
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff  331 Feb 22 20:11 .mailrc
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff  797 Feb 22 20:11 .profile
> -rw-------  1 tedm  staff  276 Feb 22 20:11 .rhosts
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff  975 Feb 22 20:11 .shrc
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff        767 Jan 24  2007 .cshrc
> -rw-------  1 tedm  staff         35 Feb 26 14:18 .lesshst
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff        248 Jan 24  2007 .login
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff        158 Jan 24  2007 .login_conf
> -rw-------  1 tedm  staff        373 Jan 24  2007 .mail_aliases
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff        331 Jan 24  2007 .mailrc
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff        805 Apr 11  2007 .profile
> -rw-------  1 tedm  staff        276 Jan 24  2007 .rhosts
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff        975 Jan 24  2007 .shrc
> drwx------  2 tedm  staff        512 Feb  1 23:52 .ssh
> See the difference?  There ISN'T any.  It's the same
> program.
>

there are different amount spaces. it could be a problem for them.

> Likely he just made a mistake and selected lukeftpd in
> the inetd.conf file rather than the normal ftpd.

no

ftp     stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/libexec/ftpd       ftpd -l
[root at xx ~]# ls -l /usr/libexec/ftpd
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  97656 24 lut 11:59 /usr/libexec/ftpd
[root at xx ~]# ls -l /usr/libexec/lukemftpd
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  128488 24 lut 11:59 /usr/libexec/lukemftpd



>
> He would also need to select the passive switch in the
> client, not the server, with whatever radio button
> it uses.

i don't know what's radio button it is ;) i don't use such clients. others 
use