Re: FTP guest access chroot not working

From: Hillel (hseltzer_at_larich.com)
Date: 03/28/05 

Date: 28 Mar 2005 06:35:58 -0800

brian@aljex.com wrote:
> Not sure what you are missing, but I have this working on a 5.0.6 box
> with the stock ftp server, so I'll just go through my entire setup
and
> maybe you can compare against your own and spot the problem. Pay
> attention to such things as the owner*** & permissions modes on
> various files & dirs.
>
> I thing the MAIN secret was an incorrect man page that described a
> certian option as being on by default and really it's off by default
> and you have to edit /etc/inetd.conf and tcp stop ; tcp start to get
> the change into effect.
>

The problem was that the "ftpd" was not using the "-a" option
by default like it used to. I just had to add the option to
inetd.conf and send the HUP signal to the inetd process.

Thanks.
---Hillel

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