From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 2 7:12: 0 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1029537B401 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 07:11:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FE4343F3F for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 07:11:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h22FBqrX014071; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 10:11:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E621F38.2010805@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 10:11:52 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dick Hoogendijk Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: create ftp account how? References: <20030302144409.GA15192@pooh.nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <20030302144409.GA15192@pooh.nagual.st> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > I cannot find a way to create the "ftp" account on my fbsd-4.7R needed > for running anonymous ftp server. > I guess it has to be a system account, and I can only find how to create > normal user accounts. > > Can anybody advise me on how to create the ftp account? I'm not aware of any special requirements for the ftp user. I seem to recall using adduser to create the account the last time I set up an anon ftp server. Be sure that the ftp user has the proper access to the directory that you want to make available. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message