Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 11:27:39 -0700 (PDT) From: billf@chc-chimes.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ports/6982: Enabling anonymous ftp in proftpd can be confusing with the average setup Message-ID: <199806181827.LAA21081@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 6982 >Category: ports >Synopsis: Enabling anonymous ftp in proftpd can be confusing with the average setup >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jun 18 11:30:00 PDT 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Bill Fumerola >Organization: computer horizons corp >Release: 2.2.6-RELEASE >Environment: FreeBSD firewall.chc-chimes.com 2.2.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE #0: Mon May 18 13:11:19 EDT 1998 billf@firewall.chc-chimes.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/HORIZONS i386 >Description: most administrators when they create an ftp user give it a shell that is /bin/date or some other nonusable shell. proftpd will not let anonymous logins occur unless a directive is in the proftpd.conf file this fix is not a critical patch but will make the lives of sysadmins everywhere easier. >How-To-Repeat: add an ftp user with a shell of /bin/date cd /usr/ports/net/proftpd; make; make install edit /etc/inetd.conf and change ftpd to proftpd and kill -SIGHUP it uncomment the anonymous section of /usr/local/etc/proftpd.conf try to login anonymous to your new ftp server >Fix: --- basic.conf.old Thu Jun 18 14:01:15 1998 +++ basic.conf Thu Jun 18 14:08:39 1998 @@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ ### Limit the maximum number of anonymous logins # MaxClients 10 + ### It is wise when making an 'ftp' user that you either block its + ### ability to login either via /etc/login.access or by giving it + ### an invalid shell. + ### Uncomment this if the 'ftp' user you made has an invalid shell + + # RequireValidShell off + ### We want 'welcome.msg' displayed at login, and '.message' displayed ### in each newly chdired directory. # DisplayLogin welcome.msg >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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