Ok, I was following the talk about the proftpd server and I have been trying
to get it working with no luck. I read the basic.conf file and made a few
changes and saved it as proftpd.conf like it said. I then opened port 21 on
my linksys router and I still can't log in to the proftpd server. Here is a
copy of my proftpd.conf file:
# This is a basic ProFTPD configuration file (rename it to
# 'proftpd.conf' for actual use. It establishes a single server
# and a single anonymous login. It assumes that you have a user/group
# "nobody" and "ftp" for normal operation and anon.
ServerName "ProFTPD Default Installation"
ServerType standalone
DefaultServer on
# Port 21 is the standard FTP port.
Port 21
# Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new dirs and files
# from being group and world writable.
Umask 022
# To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes
# to 30. If you need to allow more than 30 concurrent connections
# at once, simply increase this value. Note that this ONLY works
# in standalone mode, in inetd mode you should use an inetd server
# that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service
# (such as xinetd)
MaxInstances 30
# Set the user and group that the server normally runs at.
User eric
Group eric
# Normally, we want files to be overwriteable.
<Directory /*>
AllowOverwrite on
</Directory>
# A basic anonymous configuration, no upload directories.
<Anonymous ~ftp>
User ftp
Group ftp
# We want clients to be able to login with "anonymous" as well as "ftp"
UserAlias anonymous ftp
# Limit the maximum number of anonymous logins
MaxClients 10
# We want 'welcome.msg' displayed at login, and '.message' displayed
# in each newly chdired directory.
DisplayLogin welcome.msg
DisplayFirstChdir .message
# Limit WRITE everywhere in the anonymous chroot
<Limit WRITE>
DenyAll
</Limit>
</Anonymous>
This is the only section I changed:
# Set the user and group that the server normally runs at.
User eric
Group eric
I log into my linux computer with the login name eric and I am in the group
eric (at least that's what it says when I go into the User Manager).
Any and all help would be appreciated,
Mithrilhall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Eric Budinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 5:00 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] FTP help please
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:57:25 +0100
> Jun Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to
ponder:
> > it's up and running, configure it as you want.
> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 04:21:18AM -0500, Eric Budinger wrote:
>
> Eric,
>
> What you do next depends upon "what" you want to do with it. If you're
thinking of offering it as a private FTP server for folks you're expecting
to stop by and grab files then the setup will be somewhat different then if
you're setting it up to run 24/7 for just anyone who either finds it or
knows it's there and stops by for a look around at what you've got
available.
>
> One thing I will mention here is that Proftpd is somewhat more permissions
sensitive then wu-ftpd, so be mindful of how you set it up. there is some
very good documentation at the Proftpd site that will help you get going and
get it configured to suit your needs as well as some good example config
files both there and on your system from the install.
>
> check here --> /usr/share/doc/proftpd-1.2.2 on your system for
documentation that will shed quite a bit of light on what makes this app
tick. very informative. If you've still got questions then let'em fly here
and we'll take them one at a time.
>
> I've got some experience with Proftpd and it's been running on my system
for a few months now as well as on a server I setup at work. I'm very
pleased with it's performance.
> --
> daRcmaTTeR
>
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