Re: Help: Seeting Guest privilege for FTP login

From: Michael Vilain (vilain_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 11/09/03 

Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 13:50:43 -0800

In article <_Grrb.6217$lm1.42110@wards.force9.net>,
 "Mike Fife" <mike.fife@flasheart.co.uk> wrote:

> Can anyone help please?
> I am running solaris 9 on a sparc.
> I cannot set guest privileges for Guest Login for FTP.
>
> I have added the user 'ftp' to the /etc/passwd but now I'm stuck. Any help
> will be appreciated.

What are "guest" privileges in ftp? There's no 'guest' account in SUN's
in.ftpd, only the anonymous account which cannot be dinked with all that
much. If you want to have accounts like this, use one of the 3rd-party
ftpds out there like wuftpd or proftpd. Google for them. 

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