Re: wu-ftpd and anonymous ftp

[Jim]

On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Jason Ish wrote:

> I'm running hamm and have just installed the wu-ftpd server for the purpose
> of an anonymous ftp account.  I thought I had everything working, or so it
> appeared to work from any command line ftp client (linux/win95), but when a
> friend tried to get to it using wsftp, no directory listing was given to
> him.
> 
> Whats the cause of this and how do I fix it please.  (I did read all the
> docs).

You need to build either a static version (i.e., loads no dynamic libs) of ls,
or else locate the dynamic version _plus_ copies of any libs it loads. Next put
them into appropriate directories of /home/ftp (user ftp's home dir).

Then, wu-ftpd will call that ls when asked for a directory listing from anon
users.

Something-to-try department:

Consider trying proftpd; it does not require any extra things in the anon
dir; it takes care of everything itself.

-Jim


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Re: wu-ftpd and anonymous ftp

[Bob Nielsen]

On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Jason Ish wrote:

> I'm running hamm and have just installed the wu-ftpd server for the purpose
> of an anonymous ftp account.  I thought I had everything working, or so it
> appeared to work from any command line ftp client (linux/win95), but when a
> friend tried to get to it using wsftp, no directory listing was given to
> him.
> 
> Whats the cause of this and how do I fix it please.  (I did read all the
> docs).

Apparently the libc5 libs were included in this package (also
wu-ftpd-academ) rather than libc6.  There are bug reports on this,
however, and it will hopefully be fixed soon.

The solution (until wu-ftpd gets fixed by the maintainer) was given last
week by Ossama Othman.  It worked for me, but some others seem to be still
having problems.

Run ldd on ls.   For example,

ldd /bin/ls   (you need the absolute path)

You should get output like:

libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4000f000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000)

Copy the the libraries from the ldd output to ~ftp/lib, or wherever the
above libraries are relative to root (i.e. if in /usr/lib, copy to
~ftp/usr/lib).  Make sure the libraries have a+rx permissions.

HTH,

Bob

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Re: wu-ftpd and anonymous ftp

[Ben Gertzfield]

"Jason Ish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'm running hamm and have just installed the wu-ftpd server for the purpose
> of an anonymous ftp account.  I thought I had everything working, or so it
> appeared to work from any command line ftp client (linux/win95), but when a
> friend tried to get to it using wsftp, no directory listing was given to
> him.

There are some problems with the current wu-ftpd package. I'd try
the proftpd package instead, which is much easier to set up and
probably more secure.

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