A friend of mine just built a new machine and loaded it with RedHat 6.2,
replacing an older 5.2 machine. He reported that he was unable to upload
files by anonymous FTP, which he had no trouble doing with the 5.x system.
Having set up anonymous FTP for years on many different flavors of Unix, I
assured him this was trivial to set up, but then found that I couldn't make
it work either! :-( I failed on any 6.x system whereas it worked fine on
5.x systems with similar permissions and /etc/ftpaccess contents. I hadn't
noticed this before, since I've had no occasion to use anonymous FTP on any
of the numerous 6.x machines I've set up.
Here's what I got trying on one of our local 6.2 machines (all 6.x machines
gave the same symptoms):
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ultra9> ftp rh625
Connected to rh625.
220 rh625.genrad.com FTP server (Version wu-2.6.0(1) Mon Feb 28 10:30:36 EST 2000)
ready.
Name (rh625:rep): ftp
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> cd pub
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> lcd /o/rep
Local directory now /o/rep
ftp> put testfile
200 PORT command successful.
553 testfile: Permission denied on server. (Upload)
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* I can make connections, do directory listings and DOWNLOAD files fine.
This rules out problems with ftpusers, hosts.deny/hosts.allow, etc.
* I can FTP as an ordinary user and transfer files in either direction
* I tried turning off "-a" and adding "-d" in the in.ftpd entry in
inetd.conf (yes, I DID do the kill -HUP). The "-d" didn't produce any
illuminating results.
* I tried chmod go+x on /home/ftp/pub, which didn't help. I also tried
chown-ing it to user "ftp" with no improvement.
* I checked that "ftp" appeared correctly in the passwd and group files
* I checked the ownership, content and permissions of the subdirectories
of /home/ftp (see below).
* I've tried 3 different 6.2 machines, one 6.1 machine and one 6.0 machine
with identical behavior in each. The 6.0 machine had been updated to
wu-ftpd-2.5.0-5.6.0, the 6.1 machine has wu-ftpd-2.6.0-1, and the 6.2
machine has wu-ftpd-2.6.0-3.
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Here's what /home/ftp looks like.
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[root@rh6205 /home]# ls -Rls ftp
ftp:
total 4
1 d--x--x--x 2 root root 1024 May 13 10:07 bin
1 d--x--x--x 2 root root 1024 May 13 10:07 etc
1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 13 10:07 lib
1 drwxr-sr-x 2 root ftp 1024 Feb 4 10:06 pub
ftp/bin:
total 299
17 ---x--x--x 1 root root 15632 Feb 4 10:07 compress
46 ---x--x--x 1 root root 45552 Feb 4 10:07 cpio
49 ---x--x--x 1 root root 48752 Feb 4 10:07 gzip
48 ---x--x--x 1 root root 48048 Feb 4 10:07 ls
139 ---x--x--x 1 root root 140528 Feb 4 10:07 tar
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 13 10:07 zcat -> gzip
ftp/etc:
total 25
1 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 53 Feb 4 10:06 group
23 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21949 Feb 4 10:06 ld.so.cache
1 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 79 Feb 4 10:06 passwd
ftp/lib:
total 1155
77 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 77216 Feb 4 10:07 ld-2.1.3.so
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 May 13 10:07 ld-linux.so.2 ->
ld-2.1.3.so
968 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 985256 Feb 4 10:07 libc-2.1.3.so
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 May 13 10:07 libc.so.6 -> libc-2.1.3.so
76 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 75888 Feb 4 10:07 libnsl-2.1.3.so
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 May 13 10:07 libnsl.so.1 ->
libnsl-2.1.3.so
34 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 33036 Feb 4 10:07 libnss_files-2.1.3.so
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 May 13 10:07 libnss_files.so.2 ->
libnss_files-2.1.3.so
ftp/pub:
total 0
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It seems like we have to be missing something simple here, but I can't
think of what it might be. Can anyone help me save (regain?) my sanity?
pete peterson
GenRad, Inc.
7 Technology Park Drive
Westford, MA 01886-0033
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