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From: owen@astro.washington.edu
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Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet, FTP, & login
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.212024.26371@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 25 Jun 91 21:20:24 GMT
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In article <1991Jun24.232346.22119@aero.org> brad@aerospace.aero.org (Bradley
A. West) writes:
>I'm sure this is a dumb question but I can't seem to answer it for
>myself.
>I need to know how to turn off NCSA Telnet 2.3's ftp access userid and
>password back to my mac...

It is MUCH safer to use do ftp using an ftp client, such as XFerIt or HyperFTP
(both available from sumex-aim). You are trying to set your Mac up as an
ftp server, and worse, you want to enable the whole world to log in and
do anything they like with your files. This is asking to be screwed.

Anyway, all this kind of thing is done by editing "config.tel":

ftp=yes     enables the NCSA Telnet server ("no" disables it; that's what I
use)
passfile="name-of-file"  looks for the named password file in your system
folder;
   comment out this line if you insist on disabling password checking

Finally, if you insist on having an ftp file server, check out VersaTerm.
It's cheap, and it includes a nice ftp server that allows you to have
some accounts be read-only, and others be read-write. It also has an ftp
client -- a bit rough around the edges yet, but it does work.

-- Russell
owen@astro.washington.edu