[NTLUG:Discuss] tftp server administratively unavailable

[Leroy Tennison]

Chris Cox wrote:

> Leroy Tennison wrote:
> ...
>
>> 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.
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I understand why they did it that way (and, of course, Red hat chose to 
go the other way) but they could have made it a little clearer what had 
to be done to set up a decent FTP (an anonymous write in a jail 
somewhere with non-anonymous access for at least one non-privileged 
user, maybe also in a different jail).