Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Rusty,
>
> As a matter of fact I used all the FTP packages specifically for
> Mandrake on my machine at home. what's weird about it is that a few
> weeks ago I had FTP working fine, then something happened and i had to
> reload or the monitor bought wasn't going to work cause I was running
> the wrong version of XFree86. thats another store though.
>
> anyway, when I did setup again all went smooth until I attempted to log
> in as an anonymous user.
I just skimmed an article in Linux Journal about oftpd which may be even
better. Its a read-only (I think) ftp server that ONLY takes anon connections.
I bet if you look on.... oh, shoot, I can find it really quick, here...
its at freshmeat:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/oftpd/
> something else that is a bit strange is that
> ypbind isn't working correctly. If i'm not mistaken doesn't that have
> something to do with DNS service and aren't they somehow related to FTP
> services?
Perhaps. If ftpd is configired to verify your @foo.com domain in your
password (*), having name lookups fail could cause things to hose.
And, yes, ypbind is (can be) part of your name lookup sequence. Probably
a good idea to get that fixed and see whats still broken.
(* - can it do this???)
rc
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