[svlug] ftp'ing to my workstation

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Skip Evans (skip at venomouspenguin.com):

> Much to my embarrassment, my problem connecting to my workstation via
> ftp was because ftpd was not installed in /usr/sbin.
> 
> Well, it was there, but called in.ftp. I just renamed it and ftp works
> fine now.
> 
> Why would it come like that?

When your ftp daemon binary is named "in.ftpd", that's supposed to signal
to you that it's designed to run under the inetd superserver
(/usr/sbin/inetd).  On Linux and *BSD, most often this will be the
Washington University ftp daemon (wu-ftpd) -- or its wu-ftp-academe
variant.

There are many other ftp daemon implementations, many of them primarily
designed to run standalone (_not_ under inetd), or in some cases either
way.  Here's a list of all ftp daemon implementations for Linux known to
me.  The file also includes my personal recommendations for situations
where, per my strong preference, ftp is used for anonymous file access
_only_:

"FTP Daemons" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Network_Other/

Please see also:

"FTP Justification" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Network_Other/

> Security measure for newbies like me?

No.

-- 
Cheers,                        A: No.  
Rick Moen                      Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? 
rick at linuxmafia.com