Carlos, On Thursday 24 February 2005 16:48, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Thursday 2005-02-24 at 17:52 +0200, Hylton Conacher:
ftp> What am I doing wrong?
Nothing. You have only allowed the user "anonymous".
I would assume because each file therein is owned by a real user and therefore "anonymous" does not have permission to view anything therein. I would like to hear from the gurus on the list why this is so too.
No. The user "anonymous" of a ftp server does not exist. It is a convention, a convenient virtual "user" for access to the server by anybody, without password. The convention is to supply your email as password.
The user "anonymous" sees nothing, unless you define a default tree of files for him to see (/srv/ftp, for example). This does not depend on the server being chrooted or not.
Look closely. It (the server) told him the current directory was "/" and he tried a "cd home" and was told "No such file or directory". That can only be true if the FTP server is running in a chroot jail.
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-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Randall Schulz