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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!thorin!news.gni.net!news.omnilink.net!news.toplink.de!usenet From: Christian Kratzer <ck@toplink.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to make anonymous ftp work ? Date: 25 Aug 1995 11:38:21 GMT Organization: TopLink Gbr, Internet Services, Germany ( FreeBSD spoken here! ) Lines: 28 Message-ID: <41kcnd$3fa@toplink1.toplink.de> References: <aak2.809071062@Ra.MsState.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: toplink4.toplink.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2b2 (Windows; I; 16bit) Hi aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) wrote: > >Few weeks ago I installed FreeBSD 2.1.0-950726-SNAP and now would like to >setup an anonymous ftp server. I noticed that anonymous ftp doesn't >work at all by default. > >Thanks for any help. > >Atif Khan >aak2@ra.msstate.edu you need to add a user ftp and build a small directory structure with executables for /bin/ls etc.. It's explained in the ftpd manual page. I believe there is also something in the howtos on http://www.freebsd.org/ Greetings Christian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TopLink GbR, Internet Services info@toplink.de Phone: +49 7452 87174 http://www.toplink.de/ Fax: +49 7452 87175 Free BSD spoken here! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------