Instead of using wu-ftpd, I'd recommend installing proftpd. It's more 
secure, easier to configure, and is more flexible.

I think you can find an RPM on the Cooker site.

Jeff


At 10:14 AM 10/16/00 -0400, Logos wrote:
>I recently upgraded my wu-ftpd to 2.6.1 from 2.6.0. I never really gave a
>though to configuring it previously as I didn't use it. Now that I plan to use
>it, I want to create a guest user...here's what I did:
>1.under bash:
>         useradd penguin
>         passwd penguin
>         (and all the good pass change stuff omitted here)
>
>2.under vipw:
>
>         penguin:x:502:506:guest acct:/home/penguin/./incoming:/etc/ftponly
>              (supposed to set ./incoming as the root dir for the acct and
>                /etc/ftponly to prevent other command shell activation)
>
>3 Added the line "/etc/ftponly" to /etc/shells
>
>4. Create dirs for guest user:
>
>         cp -r /home/ftp/* /home/penguin/
>         chgrp /home/penguin/pub
>
>5. In /etc/ftpaccess added "guestuser penguin"
>
>and this, according the the redhat linux bible and other wu-docs, is 
>supposed to
>create a usable guest user for ftp services only. But where does /etc/ftponly
>come from? it's not in the src or rpm packages...is this an actual shell, a
>list of permissions, or what? When I look at the permissions for
>/home/penguin/pub/incoming I see "drwxr-sr-x"....what is this 's' in the group
>permissions? I get the message upon password entry under ftp, "550 - Can't set
>guest privileges <CR> Login failed." for the penguin guest acct. chmod does
>nothing, creating an /etc/ftponly file doesn't work
>
>
>
>
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