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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 12:06:41PM +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:
> Hi Lee,
> 
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:33:52 +0000, Lee Forrest wrote:
> 
> > Ron,
> 
> > Regarding your pure-ftpd package.
> 
>    Actually, I have never claimed it as mine. I collected it from the
> DeliLinux distro before it turned into a Debian-based distro. I thought
> I made this clear on many occasions.

You brought it to us. That counts for a lot.

I was pretty sure you didn't write it in assembly :-/

>    There IS a website for pure-ftp, you can Google for it or go directly 
> to:   http://www.pureftpd.org/

Thanks.

> 
>    Documentation is also there (for the latest, I have no doubt).  :)
> 
> > According to the docs, to set up anonymous FTP, you need a user account,
> > without a shell, named "ftp".
> 
>    I think that comes as a default in BL distros.

Not here, with BL3, but I may have removed it a long time ago. I always
remove stuff I don't need to keep things simple (or try to).

> > Does that account need a password?
> 
>    I don't think so.
> 
> > Should it have one?
> 
>    I don't think so - that is what "anonymous" means.

I was more thinking about the account, rather than what ftpd does.
Probably an ignorant question on my part, like the next one.

> >  Does it
> > need a getty running in order for people to access it?
> 
>    You have lost me.   :)

getty/mgetty/agetty  

"getty opens a tty port, prompts for a login name and invokes the /bin/login 
command. It is normally    
invoked by [3]init(8)."                                                       
                          
      
http://www.annodex.net/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+getty 

> > This isn't clear in the docs.
> 
>    Anonymous ftp means that anyone can log into it but can only access
> the /home/ftp directory and any subdirectories.
> 
>    Is this in one of the BL distros, or one you are building yourself ?

This is BL3. Thanks,

Lee 

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