On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 04:36:10PM -0400, Timothy Hospedales wrote: : How should I add a "real" user to my wu-ftpd server?
Make sure you have a class containing 'real' in your /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess file. Now everyone who has a valid login shell (that is, their shell according to /etc/passwd is listed in /etc/shells) has access to your ftp-site, using their normal login and password. : I suppose I could just copy my /etc/passwd to the ~ftp/etc/passwd, but is : this secure? And will I have to do it again everytime I add a new real : user? I can't hardlink to /etc/passwd because /home/ftp is on its own : partition...? I haven't seen much about this in the relevant manpages and : wuftpd FAQ. "adduser" and "addftpuser" scripts don't seem to be much help : either. You can use the ~ftp/etc/passwd to have it contain some uids and usernames, without passwords, to make the uids shown correctly when someone does a 'ls -l' on your ftp-site, when logged in anonymously. HTH, -Remco