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5.7 Anonymous FTP

Anonymous FTP Setting up anonymous FTP is simple. All you need to do is install the anon-ftp rpm package (which you may have already done at install time). Once it is installed, anonymous FTP will be up and running.

There are a few files you might wish to edit to configure your FTP server.

/etc/ftpaccess
This file defines most of the access control for your ftp server. Some of the things that you can do are: set up logical ``groups'' to control access from different sites, limit the number of simultaneous FTP connections, configure transfer logging, and much more. Read the ftpaccess man page for complete details.

/etc/ftphosts
The ftphosts file is used to allow or deny access to certain accounts from various hosts. Read the ftphosts man page for details.

/etc/ftpusers
This file lists all the users that are not allowed to ftp into your machine. For example, root is listed in /etc/ftpusers by default. That means that you can not ftp to your machine and log in as root. This is a good security measure, but some administrators prefer to remove root from this file.

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