Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp
On Sat, 4 May 1996, David M Smith wrote: > > "Mark" == Mark Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Definitely agree with this. It would be nice to have an anon-ftp > package which would set up ~ftp as appropriate (but not as extremely > as Mark suggests!) > There is already such thing out there. [alexandria] ~>dpkg -s wu-ftpd Package: wu-ftpd Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: net Maintainer: Peter Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 2.4-20 Depends: libc5, netbase (>=2.00) Conffiles: /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess b3b52d3d211dca606a8a3bfd8c830c7d /etc/ftpd/ftpconversions 4f3ffcef4b8cd176574877af66b57439 /etc/cron.monthly/wu-ftpd 59b64f3ca5c2819b721ccbe32aac93d5 Description: A powerful replacement for the standard ftpd wu-ftpd (Washington University ftp server) is a replacement ftp server for Unix systems. Besides supporting the ftp protocol defined in RFC 959, it adds the following features: o logging of transfers . o logging of commands o on the fly compression and archiving o classification of users on type and location o per class limits o per directory upload permissions o restricted guest accounts o system wide and per directory messages. o directory alias o cdpath o filename filter Also the package sets up anonimous ftp (I think you have to remove the ftp directory and ftp user for automatic configuration to work.).
Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp
David M. Smith writes ("Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous
ftp"):
> >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mark> (There's something to be said for having the debian ftpd package
> Mark> either handle this or include a script to do so... even if it
> Mark> means "dpkg --root ~ftp -i base*.deb" :-)
>
> Definitely agree with this. It would be nice to have an anon-ftp
> package which would set up ~ftp as appropriate (but not as extremely
> as Mark suggests!)
The package exists, and is called `wu-ftpd'.
Ian.
Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp
David> It would be nice to have an anon-ftp package which would set up ~ftp David> as appropriate Just install wu-ftpd. You will see that Debian has one just like you suggest here. -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp
David M. Smith writes ("Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp"):
> I've just enabled anonymous ftp to my Debian 1.1 Linux box according
> to the instructions in the ftpd manpage. [...]
Oh dear. Of course the right thing to do is to install wu-ftpd.
Could the ftpd manpage be changed so that it recommends that the user
install the wu-ftpd package and only follows its instructions if they
don't want this for some reason ?
Ian.
Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp
> "Mark" == Mark Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> (There's something to be said for having the debian ftpd package Mark> either handle this or include a script to do so... even if it Mark> means "dpkg --root ~ftp -i base*.deb" :-) Definitely agree with this. It would be nice to have an anon-ftp package which would set up ~ftp as appropriate (but not as extremely as Mark suggests!) # Dave -- David M. Smith, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> x3952 http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk:2080/~maa036/
Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp
> Any ideas on how to enable DIR for anonymous ftp users? Here is what I have in my directories. This was setup automatically when I installed "wu-ftpd", I believe. gatekeeper:~ftp# dir bin gzip* ls*tar* zip* gatekeeper:~ftp# dir lib ld.so* libc.so.4@ libc.so.4.6.27.old* gatekeeper:~ftp# Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp
This is probably the most frequently asked question over on the wu-ftpd list :-) Easy way: compile ls from sources, but use gcc -static at the end so it doesn't need shared libs. Works on all systems. Hard way: update a *lot* more of lib, you need ld.so and/or ld-linux.so, and you need to run ldconfig on that copy of lib (see the ldconfig man page for details.) The specific details vary a lot from system to system. (There's something to be said for having the debian ftpd package either handle this or include a script to do so... even if it means "dpkg --root ~ftp -i base*.deb" :-)
Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp
>I've just enabled anonymous ftp to my Debian 1.1 Linux box according >to the instructions in the ftpd manpage. All works fine, except that >it appears that an anonymous ftp user cannot use the command "DIR" >and "ls -l" doesn't work (both report no files). This works fine for >regular users. I simply copied /bin/ls to ~ftp/bin; I thought the >problem may have been that ls couldn't find its libraries after the >chroot, but copying libc.so to ~ftp/lib didn't help either. What about ld.so? You might find some error messages in log files, with any luck: those would provide a pointer, too. -- Richard Kettlewell [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/
Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp
I've just enabled anonymous ftp to my Debian 1.1 Linux box according to the instructions in the ftpd manpage. All works fine, except that it appears that an anonymous ftp user cannot use the command "DIR" and "ls -l" doesn't work (both report no files). This works fine for regular users. I simply copied /bin/ls to ~ftp/bin; I thought the problem may have been that ls couldn't find its libraries after the chroot, but copying libc.so to ~ftp/lib didn't help either. Any ideas on how to enable DIR for anonymous ftp users? Thanks, # Dave -- David M. Smith, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> x3952 http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk:2080/~maa036/
