Anonymous FTP

[paul van den bergen]

see also
http://www.freebsddiary.org/ftp-anonymous.php

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:09 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 04:57:28PM -0500, fbsd_user wrote:
> > I see /var/ftp and sub-directories beneath it, with an copy of
> > passwd, group and ls and date commands.
> > What is going here? How does inted.conf  ftp statement knows to use
> > that area on /var ?
> > Where can I find written description on how sysinstall set up
> > anonymous FTP?
>
> This is described in the ftpd(8) man page.  The anonymous FTP
> behaviour requires that there be a "ftp" UID in the password file and
> is triggered by the remote user logging in as "anonymous" or "ftp".
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew

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Dr Paul van den Bergen
Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures
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