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  From: Michael Selge <mselge@hansenyuncken.com.au>
  To  : Mike O <mike@pineview.net>
  Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 08:57:46 +1030

RE: Anon FTP problems

Good suggestion... I spent a few hours trying other things with WUftp to no
avail.
I removed WUFTP and Anonymous packages and installed PureFTP, made a few
minor changes and it worked flawlessly

Thanks

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike O'Connor [mailto:mike@pineview.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, 6 November 2001 10:13
> To: mselge@hansenyuncken.com.au
> Subject: Re: Anon FTP problems
>
>
> Hi Michael
>
> Can I suggest you have a look at a program call pure-ftpd, it
> really great
> and very secure.
>
> http://pureftpd.org
>
> Mike
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Selge" <mselge@hansenyuncken.com.au>
> To: "Linuxsa (E-mail)" <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 9:31 AM
> Subject: Anon FTP problems
>
>
> > Before I get flamed for wanting to set up an anonymous FTP
> server I should
> > start by adding that it is only going to be used for LAN
> get togethers
> with
> > Friends. It will not be publically available on the net for misuse.
> >
> > My Problem : I'm running RH7.2 and I have installed WU-FTP
> and anonymous
> > ftp. Anonymous users can log in OK and they can access
> files that I have
> > placed in there no problems. If they go to the incoming
> directory they can
> > upload individual files to it but if they upload a folder with
> > subdirectories, then only the directory name is copied and that new
> > directory has the group as "root".
> >
> > Is this directory access problem due to an error in my
> /etc/ftpaccess
> file
>

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