From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 13 21:47:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA21364 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 21:47:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line1.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA21359 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 21:47:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA01048; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 21:47:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 21:47:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Loper cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting up inetd (ftpd) to accept connections In-Reply-To: <341B216F.63FC5540@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, Loper wrote: > I was wondering if anyone had any example files (better documented than > the ones that come with the cd) on how to set up ftpd to accept > connections. > As it stands, ftpd will accept the connection, but will deny login to > ANYONE no matter their login (does not even get so far as to ask for a > passwrd). > To the best of my knowledge, the files that need to be modified are > ftpaccess and passwrd, but I am unsure as to the format. Any info would > be appreciated. thanks. That's a new default. My machine allowed users to login by default. What's the recorded reason for rejection? Should appear in /var/log/messages or /var/log/xferlog. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo