[Xitami] Getting the FTP side up and running

Brian {Hamilton Kelly} xitami@lists.xitami.org
Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:49:59 +0100 (BST)


In message <41238543.22796.20D5AA7@localhost> "Johannes Prost" writes:

[snip]

> one user can access only one of the two directories with the rights I gav=
e them.
> You are looking for a user "anonymus" create one and as far as I understo=
od, this user should only=20
> be able to retrieve files. He will get the right "G" for get.
>=20
> Your ftpdirs.aut should look now like this
>=20
> [directoryname-1]
>     anonymus =3D "G"
> [directoryname-2]
>     anonymus =3D "G"
>=20
> make sure that you have one space between =3D and "G"
>=20
> and your ftpusers.aut should look like=20
>=20
> [anonymus]
>     Access =3D "G"
>     Aliases =3D "0"
>     Hard-quota =3D ""
>     Password =3D "anonymus"

One little point: the "username" for FTP should be spelt properly, as
"anonymous".  Also, surely there should be no password specified for the
anonymous FTP client, because the convention is that each user provides
his/her e-mail address as password.

--=20
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                     bhk@dsl.co.uk
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