Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

["Marlier, Ian" <ian.marlier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Van Lone [mailto:petervl@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 3:39 PM
> To: SLE
> Subject: Re: [SLE] xinet.d ftp service .. anonymous access to
> /home/httpd/logs
> 
> On 9/18/06, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Perhaps... but you didn't say which ftp server you are using, so we
> can't
> > comment.
> 
> sorry! this is the default vsftpd that ships with sles9, launched via
> xinet.d (ie enabled it in yast using network services, inet.d,
> enabling only ftp
> 
> Since my original post (in fact 5 sec after hitting send) I found a
> reference to the vsftpd.conf parameter "anon_root"
> 
> after dinking around with the syntax, I got this to work.
> 
> The only thing still remaining is whether it is possible to limit the
> ftp service to responding only to a particular source ip address

Look at the parameters for xinetd -- one of them (I think it's
"only_from" or something like that) limits the IP range(s) from which
connections are accepted.