Simplifying anonymous FTP

Philip Prindeville philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Tue Aug 23 17:06:33 UTC 2005


akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:

>On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 04:07:49PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
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>>Quick question... is there a way to get anonymous FTP's
>>to automatically do a "cwd pub" when logging in (forced
>>on the server side)?
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>I haven't used this in a long while but the ncftp program does this .
>It goes to anonymous ftp by default and switches to pub. It also has a
>options ((although I could not find this quickly) to ftp whole
>directories, It can be installed by yum from extras and has a lot of
>other neat features.
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>

Right...  But I want to do this on the server side when someone logs in
as anonymous...  Force their session to start out in ~ftp/pub/

-Philip




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