Installing and Administering Internet Services

48 Chapter 2

Installing and Conﬁguring Internet Services

Conﬁguring Anonymous ftp Access

Anonymous ftp allows a user without a login on your host to transfer

ﬁles to and from a public directory. A user types the ftp command to

connect to your host and types anonymous or ftp as a login name. The

user can type any string of characters as a password. (By convention, the

password is the host name of the user’s host). The anonymous user is

then given access only to user ftp’s home directory, usually called

/home/ftp.

Conﬁguring anonymous ftp access involves the following tasks,

described in this section:

• “To Add User ftp to /etc/passwd” on page 48

• “To Create the Anonymous ftp Directory” on page 48

You can follow the instructions in this section, or you can use SAM to

conﬁgure anonymous ftp access. SAM (System Administration

Manager) is Hewlett-Packard’s windows-based user interface for

performing system administration tasks. To run SAM, type sam at the

HP-UX prompt. SAM has an extensive online help facility.

To Add User ftp to /etc/passwd

Use a text editor to add a line for user ftp to the /etc/passwd ﬁle, as in

the following example:

ftp:*:500:guest:anonymous ftp:/home/ftp:/usr/bin/false

The password ﬁeld should be *, the group membership should be guest,

and the login shell should be /usr/bin/false. In this example, user

ftp’s user ID is 500, and the anonymous ftp directory is /home/ftp.

Type man 4 passwd at the HP-UX prompt for information on the

passwd ﬁle.

To Create the Anonymous ftp Directory

1. Create the ftp home directory that you conﬁgured in the

/etc/passwd ﬁle, as in the following example:

cd /home

mkdir ftp