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From: Christian Kratzer <ck@toplink.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to make anonymous ftp work ?
Date: 25 Aug 1995 11:38:21 GMT
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Hi

aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) wrote:
>
>Few weeks ago I installed FreeBSD 2.1.0-950726-SNAP and now would like to
>setup an anonymous ftp server.  I noticed that anonymous ftp  doesn't
>work at all by default.
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>Atif Khan
>aak2@ra.msstate.edu

you need to add a user ftp and build a small directory structure with executables
for /bin/ls  etc..  It's explained in the ftpd manual page. I believe there is also
something in the howtos on http://www.freebsd.org/

Greetings
Christian


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