From zentara@mindspring.com Fri Mar 13 18:54:43 1998
From: zentara@mindspring.com
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Elementary ftp questions
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:54:43 +0100
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In-Reply-To: <[S.u.S.E. Linux] Elementary ftp questions>
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John Weekley wrote:

> zentara wrote:
> > but I can't get to my ftp directory in /usr/local/ftp
> > with               <A HREF=3D"ftp://192.168.0.1"><A HREF=3D"ftp://192.168=
.0.1</A">ftp://192.168.0.1</A</A>>
> > I get no connection. Why?
> >
=20
> Hi, I can't help with the samba stuff (I use NFS, no M$ here :), but
> maybe I can shed some light on the ftp question.
> First of all, you're not really being dumped into the "/" filesystem.
> What's happening is that due to default security you're being put into
> /usr/local/ftp as you want.  What's going on is that there's a way of
> making your ftp directory be "/" for ftp users only, see man chroot.
> This way, anonymous FTP'ers can't get out of the /usr/local/ftp
> directory and wreak havoc on your system.  Your ftp directory becomes
> the / filesystem.
>=20
> As to why you can't see anything, I'll take a guess and say your file
> permissions don't allow anything to be seen.
> The docs for the wu-ftpd cover all this pretty well, especially the
> chroot part, and MOST IMPORTANTLY the file premissions needed to run a
> secure server.
>=20
> John Weekley

Thanks for detailing that for me. I did sort of figure out it worked
that way, by playing around with it.
I came to see that to get anonymous ftp, you have to log on as "ftp"
and send a blank password.
If you log on as a user, you get then start ftp, you get dumped
in your home directory.
I see the benefit in doing it this way.

What I really would like to understand is how to get into=20
anonymous ftp via Netscape on a win95 machine connected via
ethernet.=20

I guess the question is why does the http daemon listen to
my ethernet card address, but the ftp daemon dosn't ?
How do I instruct the ftp daemon to listen to eth0, and
put all requests into /usr/local/ftp?=20
I read man ftpd but couldn't make alot of sense out of it.

I'm trying to set up a little ethernet lan to practice
web and ftp procedures.


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