[plug] proftpd and anonymous login

Craig Dyke grail at westnet.com.au
Sun Jul 20 23:06:53 WST 2003


Mine is pretty much like yours and even if
I edit to make exactly same I still can't login anonymously :((

Craig
On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 22:26, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 10:16:37PM +0800, Craig Dyke wrote:
>  
> | Can anyone tell me what is wrong with my ftp server that it won't
> | allow anonymous connections?
> 
> It's probably been set up to not allow them.  On Debian,
> dpkg-reconfigure proftpd will do the trick.  Otherwise you need to edit
> /etc/proftpd.conf - from the bottom of mine:
> 
> <Anonymous ~ftp>
>   User                          ftp
>   Group                         nogroup
>   # We want clients to be able to login with "anonymous" as well as
>   # "ftp"
>   UserAlias                     anonymous ftp
> 
>   RequireValidShell             off
> 
>   # Limit the maximum number of anonymous logins
>   MaxClients                    10
> 
>   # We want 'welcome.msg' displayed at login, and '.message' displayed
>   # in each newly chdired directory.
>   DisplayLogin                  welcome.msg
>   DisplayFirstChdir             .message
> 
>   # Limit WRITE everywhere in the anonymous chroot
>   <Directory *>
>     <Limit WRITE>
>       DenyAll
>     </Limit>
>   </Directory>
> 
> </Anonymous>
> 
> Then of course you need to set up user ftp and so on, if it isn't
> already.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Cameron.
> 



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