From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 10 4:11:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 386A737B422 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 04:11:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 5789 invoked by uid 0); 10 Apr 2001 11:11:18 -0000 Received: from pd4b9eee8.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO lofizwei) (212.185.238.232) by mail.gmx.net (mp017-rz3) with SMTP; 10 Apr 2001 11:11:18 -0000 Message-ID: <028701c0c1ae$f79ce9e0$0508a8c0@lofi.dyndns.org> From: "Michael Nottebrock" To: "TOPCAT CONSULTING" , References: <3AD2BD4A.FAAA15CD@sk.sympatico.ca> Subject: Re: changing anonymous ftp directory after install Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:11:18 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > [...] > I would now like to change the directory to /usr/ftp > > What file to I have to edit to change this? > [...] Edit the /etc/passwd file and change the home directory of the user 'ftp' from /var/ftp to /usr/ftp. Then move ftp and it's subdirs from /var to /usr. Also, read the manpage of ftpd and check the permissions of each directory according to the instructions found in the manpage. Greetings, Michael Nottebrock To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message