[NTLUG:Discuss] tftp server administratively unavailable

[Chris Cox]

Leroy Tennison wrote:
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> I don't know whose ftp server you are using (I know, it's tftp, I'm 
> assuminbg that tftp is being supplied by an ftp implementation) or on 
> what distribution but I ran into roadblocks with vsftp because of the 
> way SuSE configured it.  Basically they had it set up as an 
> anonymous-only read-only server.  If there's no firewall then take a 
> close look at the configuration.  I had to read the man page carefully 
> to find my answer: VSFTPD won't operate if it's root is anonymous and 
> writable.  SuSE's default configuration didn't provide a subdirectory 
> undet the ftp root which was writable.  If this seems promising I'll be 
> glad to discuss in details.

SUSE doesn't configure the inherently insecure ftp protocol except
for anonymous ftp for obvious reasons. I understand your frustration,
but to configure ftp old-style (before Unix was concerned about
security) is just asking for it when a newbie goes to install it.

There's a reason why SUSE did this... and they are not alone.
It's fairly trivial.. I think we're talking about two edits
to the vsftpd conf file to make it behave like old-style
insecure Unix ftp.