RE: anonymous user

> Subject: RE: anonymous user
> From: Mark Grieveson <[email protected]>
> To: Gopinath Rao <gpawar>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:55:25 -0400
> 
> Hello, thanks for your reply.  I don't have the command ftpconfig.  I've
> looked for it in the Debian packages, but I've not been able to find it.
> I'm not sure how to create the "ftp" account in /etc/passwd.  Currently
> there are a lot of colons, numbers, and /bin/bash(or sync, or sh).  No
> ftp anywhere, though.  Can you give me some details as to how to
> manually add this?

Create a user entry called 'ftp' in /etc/passwd
create a home directory for this user
set up everything so that ftpd can chroot to that particular user under the home 
directory.

is basically how you do it.  See the Debian documentation for "ftpd" and 
"anonymous ftp"...

Regards,
Gregory Hicks

> 
> On Mon, 2005-25-07 at 22:26 -0700, Gopinath Rao wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> > 
> > You need to create local account "ftp"  in /etc/passwd. Incase of
> > Solaris 9 you could run ftpconfig command. The script in in.ftpd man
> > page would be useful
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Gopi
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Grieveson
> > Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 10:22 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: anonymous user
> > 
> > I'm having problems setting up wu-ftpd. I cannot log in as an anonymous
> > user. When I look at the setup with webmin-wuftpd, I get the following
> > quote: 
> >         
> >         quote:
> >         ________________________________________________________________
> >         Warning - your system does not have an ftp user, and thus
> >         anonymous FTP is probably not configured.
> >         ________________________________________________________________
> > 
> > How do I fix this?  I use Debian Sarge.