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Hello Andrew, Saturday, March 23, 2002, 1:17:02 AM, you wrote: [snip] AD> Now to get it working on my home PC where there is no domain controller. AD> This is on Windows XP. >> I've >> determined that creating a user without a password to be used by >> ftpd doesnt work on WinXP (maybe others too but I dont have access to test). >> Or much better would be to say - a user without a pass cannot log in >> into ftpd on WinXP Home. I can reproduce this behaviours each time... AD> Funny my experience is the opposite. I turned on the Guest account then AD> edited my /etc/passwd to change "Guest" to "ftp" in the username field AD> only and set the home directory to point to my FTP area. At this point AD> "Guest" does not have a password. Anonymous ftp works but then again so AD> does a telnet as user ftp without a password! Funny thing is that AD> anonymous ftp does not show the contents of my FTP area while telneting AD> in as ftp does! Guest is some kind of special beast - try with a freshly created user which has no password. Try to login via ftp using this account - you'll see (maybe) what I mean. AD> Now if I put a password on the Guest account then telneting in as ftp AD> requires that password. But now anonymous ftping doesn't! ftpd knows anonymous is guest and passes to the API LogonUser an empty password... Still I dont know what happens when you telnet - I've played just with ftpd. AD> Any ideas? I want to set up anonymous ftp but I don't want to leave AD> myself wide open to do so. Well its written in the README - you have to use account with an empty pass :) Can't help... >> PT> I got the sources for inetutils and I'm going to debug it this night. >> >> Well, I did ... I learned many things :) i.e. the little secret about >> /etc/passwd and /etc/group for exmaple :) (Yes, this is not in the >> FAQ!) AD> And what might that be? The must be word readable - I dont see it anywhere in the README... Though I know this from the mailing list.. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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