[ale] proftpd, allow any anonymous userid

Jim Popovitch yahoo at jimpop.com
Thu Jul 12 15:21:00 EDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 15:01 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> http://proftpd.org/docs/directives/linked/config_ref_AnonRequirePassword.html

Yeah, I've got that part... just not the any userid part.

Still, thx.

-Jim P.

> 
> On 7/12/07, Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com> wrote:
> > I run an anonymous ftp server using proftpd.  Occasionally i see log
> > entries due to folks who misspell anonymous or use their own userid,
> > etc.  Frankly I don't care what id they use when accessing the system
> > and I'd like to find a way to allow proftpd to accept any userid (it's
> > an Anonymous setup anyways) and not prompt for any password (preventing
> > clients from possibly sending a password in plaintext).  Any ideas how
> > this can be achieved in proftpd?  And... if it is implemented just how
> > bad would the absence of a password prompt from the server screw up
> > clients?
> >
> > Thx,
> >
> > -Jim P.
> 
> 




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