Hi, I have some problems with my FTP-server, and was wondering if anyone could help me!?

I'm now running a FTP-server of my SuSE linux box for my friends, that means they have accounts on it, but now I want to enable anonymous login ( where you login with anonymous/ftp user and your e-mail as address ). All this is working fine, I can connect as anonymous and all, but only when I type 'ls' can I view the files, if I user 'dir' nothing shows up!? But this is not the case when my friends logon, they can use both ls and dir.... Any ideas??

Hommi

This has to do with the /bin directory that the anonymous users are accessing in order to process commands. I'm not exactly sure with anonymous ftp whether it's in /var/ftp/bin or not, but you could verify the configuration by reading some of the on-line documentation at places like http://www.linuxdoc.org .

As an aside, you should probably look into vsftp. It is an alternative ftp server. At this point, I still think it remains un-hacked.