ftp setup question

[Mike Ballon]

To disable anonymous ftp add the user 'ftp' to /etc/ftpusers

You might want to disable ftp alltogether and use scp which comes with ssh.

The file that displays the welcome screen is /etc/issue.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Beeson" <beesond001 at hawaii.rr.com>
To: "Linux Users Anonymous" <luau at luau.hi.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 8:28 PM
Subject: [luau] ftp setup question


> Aloha all,
>
> I have a need to further secure my WU-FTP server. (This server runs on
> a RH Linux box.) I would like to have the ftp server only allow access to
> "real" accounts.  I do not wish to allow guest or anonymous access.  Until
I
> can get some more secure services running on my office box, I am unable to
> use SSH.  Even so, I still need to have access to my home computer from my
> office to move files back and forth between them.  What I have found in
the
> documentation is that there is some guidance on how to set up a "secure"
> anonymous ftp server, but no readily apparent guidance on how to really
limit
> access to those that need it and deny it to all others.
>
> I also would like to know how to set up the server to display a home
> brewed greeting when the machine connects instead of the default welcome
> message that contains version specific info etc. The info on how to do
this in
> the documentation didn't work for me, the ftp server still displays the
version
> info when the ftp server greeting is set to terse.
>
> Mahalos in advance,
>
> Ben Beeson
>
>
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