Subject: Re: FTP Setup help
To: Bruce Lane <kyrrin@bluefeathertech.com>
From: David Maxwell <david@vex.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/01/2001 12:23:05
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:33:40PM -0700, Bruce Lane wrote:
> Fellow NetBSD'ers,
> 
> 	I'm -almost- done. I've got the Compaq running happily, and am setting up
> the FTP server. I've followed the directions in what little I could find in
> the way of HowTo's, but I seem to be missing something.
> 
> 	Specifically: When I log in as myself, no problem. I can get to everything
> I've set up. However, when I do an anonymous login, I'm stuck in the '/'
> directory, and it doesn't shift me to the root of the ftp user's home
> directory (which, with the entry in /etc/passwd, I've declared to be
> /arch0/ftp).
> 
> 	What am I doing wrong?

The ftpd manpage includes a section on directory and file permissions
which will probably solve your problem.

-- 
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mastery of language, offers real freedom. The price of freedom is always dear,
but there's no substitute. Personally, I'd rather pay for my freedom than live
in a bitmapped, pop-up-happy dungeon like NT. - Thomas Scoville