3Com Switch 8800 Advanced Software V5 Configuration Guide

1042 CHAPTER 81: FTP CONFIGURATION
result in file corruption on the router. This mode, however, consumes less
memory space than the fast mode.
Follow these steps to configure the FTP server:
Configuring
Authentication and
Authorization for
Accessing FTP Server
To allow an FTP user to access certain directories on the FTP server, you need to
create an account for the user, authorizing access to the directories and
associating the username and password with the account.
Follow these steps to configure authentication and authorization for FTP server:
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If FTP server performs authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) policy
on FTP client, AAA related parameters should be configured on the FTP server. For
more information about the local-user, password and service-type commands
refer to the Switch 8800 Command Reference Guide and to the
“AAA, RADIUS
and HWTACACS Configuration” on page 879 for more information on the AAA
related configuration.
FTP Server Configuration
Examples
Network requirements
■ Use your device as an FTP server. Create a user account for an FTP user on it,
setting the username to abc and the password to pwd.
■ The IP address of the VLAN interface is 1.1.1.1/16.
■ The PC serves as the FTP client, which is to upload an image file.
To do... Use the command... Remarks
Enter system view system-view -
Enable the FTP server ftp server enable Required
Disabled by default.
Configure the idle-timeout
timer
ftp timeout minutes Optional
30 minutes by default.
In idle-timeout time, if there is
no information interaction
between the FTP server and
client, the connection
between them is terminated.
Set the file update mode in
FTP
ftp update { fast | normal } Optional
Normal update is used by
default.
To do... Use the command... Remarks
Enter system view system-view -
Create a local user and enter
its view
local-user user-name Required
No local user exists by default,
and the system does not
support FTP anonymous user
access.
Assign a password to the user password { simple | cipher }
password
Required