On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, coddie wrote:

> Can you help me with establishing anonymous ftp? Under linux, there is
> special package with configuration, but what to do with netbsd? Gid,uid,
> shell for ftp user....
> 
> Can you help me?


I've not done it before, but it looks like the things to do are:

% vipw

to add a line to the /etc/passwd file that looks like:

ftp:*:32764:4000:&:/ftp:/sbin/nologin

Where /ftp should be replaced with whatever directory is your anonymous
ftp directory.

Edit /etc/group and add the following group:

ftp:*:4000:

Edit /etc/ftpusers and make sure you have the following 2 lines:

ftp     allow
anonymous allow


I think this is it, but I'm not 100% sure of that.  For more details:
man ftpd

perhaps this can be turned into a HOW-TO once the steps are all verified?

Good luck

-Dan