From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 14 11:17: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84352152DD for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:17:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990314191809.LYLQ3226200.mta2-rme@wocker>; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 08:18:09 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Christopher Michaels Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 08:17:14 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: anon ftp: Can't set guest privileges Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A5F64@site2s1> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990314191809.LYLQ3226200.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No, I haven't checked. And my first questions to your message where: "How *do* I check that? Where is it specified?". But read on. I did a man ftpd and found the following: ### If the user name is ``anonymous'' or ``ftp'', an anonymous ftp account must be present in the password file (user ``ftp''). ### So then I checked vipw and found that ftp is listed as a user. But the home directory doesn't exist. I've just changed that to what it should be. I'm not using /var/ftp as that slice doesn't contain enough space. After doing that and reconnecting, I see that anon ftp is now running. Cheers! On 14 Mar 99, at 10:19, Christopher Michaels wrote: > ( I haven't upgraded yet but... ) > Have you checked #1 who the ftpd is running as? who the guest account is? > and if that account exists? > > e.g. My ftp runs as ftp:operator. Is it still trying to run as that > account, and if so does it exist in 3.1? > > -Chris > > > I have recently upgraded to 3.1-release from 2.2.8-stable. I'm not sure > > if anon ftp worked since the upgrade or not, but it did prior to the > > upgrade. Now when I try to connect via anonymous ftp, I get the following > > > > messages: > > > > 550 Can't set guest privileges. > > ftp: Login failed. > > > > Any ideas? cheers. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message