[ale] proftpd, allow any anonymous userid

[James Sumners]

I don't think that is going to happen. Since the server can accept
logins from Anonymous and "real users" with the same configuration, I
think it will require a specific id, or group, for Anonymous.

It MIGHT be possible to use
http://proftpd.org/docs/directives/linked/config_ref_UserAlias.html to
setup a line like "UserAlias * ftp". But I highly doubt it.

The place to ask, instead of searching all over the web in vain, is
#proftpd on irc.freenode.net. When I was running a proftpd server, and
had questions, that is where I turned. More often than not, Castaglia
(http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/) would give me just the answer I
was looking for. He would definitely have the answer to your question.

On 7/12/07, Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com> wrote:
> 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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