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[owen.synge@xxxxxxxxxx (Owen Synge)]

Thnakyou very much, good to hear this is not an option. Today our client
told us that we cant use TCP/IP anyway.

Thanks again
Owen

Eilert Brinkmann wrote:
> 
> Owen Synge <owen.synge@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Is it possible to give users additional commands when they log on to my
> > FTP server. I saw a directory called /usr/local/ftp/bin which contained
> > ls and compress but could not get compress to run or a little hello
> > world binary.
> 
> It is not (and should not be for security reasons) possible to send
> arbitrary shell commands to an FTP server. The FTP server recognizes
> FTP commands as specified in RFC 959 (these are neither shell commands
> nor are they identical with the commands recognized by an FTP client's
> command line interface) and it *may* use other programs (like /bin/ls)
> when processing the requests. So you would have to implement
> additional commands in your FTP deamon, possibly by offering site
> specific extensions via the FTP "SITE" command. Simply putting
> binaries to ~ftp/bin gives you nothing.
> 
> Eilert
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