wu-ftpd & anonftp

robinhood1995 · 04-23-2002, 11:23 AM

Hi All,

Redhat 7.2

I had installed the wu-ftpd-2.6.2.tar.gz over the standard release of redhat and the problem I ran into was that no one could login anonymous anymore. I verified the ftpaccess and nothing was modified. I then decided to got back to the orginal but I rpm -e the old version of wu-ftpd and the anonftp. I reinstalled the wu-ftp of the cd which installed fine but I get the following message with anonftp

error: failed dependencies:
ftpserver is needed by anonftp-4.0-9

Any suggestions?

RH

sancho5 · 04-23-2002, 08:33 PM

i hate to be a cliche, but with WU's history, is there any reason you're not using any of the several more secure FTP daemons out there? ProFTPd, PureFTPd, NCFTPd and others run beautifully on redhat.

zmedico · 04-23-2002, 09:11 PM

You can try to find an rpm here: http://rpmfind.net

robinhood1995 · 04-24-2002, 07:58 PM

Thanks, all for the info I will try to install proftpd. But I would like to know if I still have to install anonftp?

RH

sancho5 · 04-28-2002, 12:26 AM

no. redhat default is weird with splitting up an anonymous ftpd from a login-required one. As you'll see with installing any other ftpd, it boils down to the fact that the only difference between anonymous ftp and ftp with a user account is just that; you're passing a different set of user credentials to ftpd.

Install Proftpd and that's all you'll need for anonymous (chrooted, too) ftp, or for whatever user accounts you want to set up. It handles it all.