i am running pure-ftpd through inetd, and i am having problems that i have found many times with proftpd. i have a firewall/router that is setup to forward port 21 to my computer. this seems to kinda work. outside users can log in, but they cannot do any commands, such as 'ls'. I have read (on the following thread) that this is due to passive ports not being able to get throught the firewall. well in proftpd you can set that option in the config file, but it appears as though pure-ftpd does not have a config file. i am confused as to what to do.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=79251

any help will be much appreciated.

if it's a linux router, "modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp" and it should work (i think)

actually i figured it out.

pure-ftpd does not use a config file because everything is passed through the command line. all i needed to do was add '-p 3456:3456' to my list of arguments in inetd.conf, then forward all port 3456 requests to my computer

you need to allow passive in order to issue the comands

ok, so how do tell my server and/or linksys firewall to only allow passive and not active?

>how do tell my server and/or linksys firewall to only allow passive and not active?

I don't think you can and I don't think that is what littleking meant.
I suspect all you could do is add a sentance to the ftp server login message telling people to set their FTP client to passive mode.
If the people connecting to the ftp server from outside can receive incoming connections then active mode will probably work.
If they are NATed or firewalled they will probably have to use passive mode which you have now got working.

ahh i gotcha. thanks guys.