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From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Anonymous Login Accounts
Message-ID: <21773@bbn.COM>
Date: 8 Mar 88 20:16:40 GMT
References: <12181@brl-adm.ARPA>
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From article <12181@brl-adm.ARPA>, by chrisb@almsa-1.arpa (Christine Blumenkamp):
> I would like to know how to set up "anonymous" login accounts on several
> different systems that are on an Ethernet.  These accounts will be established
> for people using FTP (File Transfer Protocol) who need to copy files to/from
>[...]
> Are there any references that would be useful reading?

man 8C ftpd

Anonymous ftp connections do not have access to the entire file
structure.  Typically, a chroot(2) is done to limit access to files and
directories contained in /usr/ftp.

Follow the directions in the ftpd(8C) man page carefully since the
ftp daemon runs as super-user.  It's secure, but only if you get the
protections right.  Once you've set things up, try it out to make sure
anonymous users can't do anything nasty.


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