I have just set up a Pure-FTP server on my SuSE 9.1 system.

I set it running with pure-ftpd -A &

The -A option is to force chrooting of all users. (NB I started without the option and got the same problem)

I can log in to the server from the local host and also from another machine on the network (Win XP) as an anonymous user - it says "230 Anonymous user logged in" and gives me an ftp> prompt.

When I type ftp> dir, I get:

200 PORT command successful
150 Connecting to port 5001
226-Options: -1
226 0 matches total
ftp>.

I have setup the user ftp in Linux and put a file in the home directory home/ftp. The ownerships are all OK (ftp owns the file and directory). I tried opening port 5001 on the firewall, but that does not seem to be the issue.

I must be missing something simple. I have not told the ftp daemon where the home directory of the anonymous user is - but the word in the forums seems to be that it should be /home/ftp. Is there some other configuration option? I found the Pure-ftp documentation good on the advanced setup but not so good for newbies.

Any help gratefully received.

Tim.

It _should_ be /home/ftp but in fact it could be anything, it depends on the /etc/passwd file. Take a look in there and check where your "ftp" account point to. As example, on my system :
ftp:x:21:21::/siteFtp/.anonymous:/bin/false

so the anonymous account log into "/siteFtp/.anonymous/".

Btw, a general hints, make sure your anonymous users can't upload and download. Usually one of these rights is good (upload OR download) but both will _quickly_ change your box into the warez server of some 15 years-old script-kiddies that scan the world using scanner they can't even understand.

Thanks very much. You were quite right. The passwd file showed it was pointing at a directory /srv/ftp. I put a file in /srv/ftp and it is working fine.

I shall change it point to a data directory.

I had not noticed the /srv directory before and all my server software is installed in various places around the system at the whim of the rpm packages. I think a tidy up is called for!

Thanks also for the security tips. In fact I am only running anonymously on my internal network, my plan is to have proper login for all users before I go live on the internet.

Cheers.

Tim.