Setting up FTP and Anonymous FTP Server

There are two kinds of FTP service. One allows regular users on your
system to login from a remote system using FTP. The other type of FTP
is anonymous FTP which allows any user on a remote system to login to
your system and download files from the /home/ftp/pub/ directory.

In order to set up either of these types of FTP on your system,
you need the package wu-ftpd. To enable anonymous FTP, you’ll also
need the anonftp package. If these are not installed, they come with all
distributions of Linux, and are also available at rpmfind.net

First download and Install

wu-ftp (For Regular FTP user with User Logins)

anon-ftp (For Anonymous Logins)

Xinetd (For Start/Stop the above Services)

then,

Create directory /home/ftp/pub for anonymous logins

Set permission for /home/ftp/pub to read
chmod -R 444 /home/ftp

Change the ownership permission to sriram
chown -R sriram.sriram /home/ftp



[root@localhost jabberd-2.0s11]# urpmi wu-ftpd

ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official
/2006.0/i586/media/contrib/wu-ftpd-2.6.2-6mdk.i586.rpm
installing wu-ftpd-2.6.2-6mdk.i586.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms
Preparing... #############################################
1/1: wu-ftpd #############################################
[root@localhost jabberd-2.0s11]# urpmi anonftp

ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official
/2006.0/i586/media/contrib/anonftp-3.0-31mdk.i586.rpm
installing anonftp-3.0-31mdk.i586.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms
Preparing... #############################################
1/1: anonftp #############################################
[root@localhost jabberd-2.0s11]#

[root@localhost jabberd-2.0s11]# urpmi xinetd

ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official
/2006.0/i586/media/main/xinetd-2.3.13-2mdk.i586.rpm
installing xinetd-2.3.13-2mdk.i586.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms
Preparing... #############################################
1/1: xinetd #############################################

[root@localhost xinetd.d]# pwd
/etc/xinetd.d

[root@localhost xinetd.d]# cat wu-ftpd
# default: on
# description: The wu-ftpd FTP server serves FTP connections. It uses \
# normal, unencrypted usernames and passwords for authentication.
service ftp
{
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.ftpd
server_args = -l -a
log_on_success += DURATION USERID
log_on_failure += USERID
nice = 10
}
[root@localhost xinetd.d]#

[root@localhost jabberd-2.0s11]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd start
Starting xinetd: [ OK ]

[root@localhost jabberd-2.0s11]# telnet localhost 21
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 localhost FTP server (Version wu-2.6.2(1) Thu Jun 2 19:14:54 CEST 2005) ready.
quit
221 Goodbye.


Now Setting up Anonymous ftp :

Create directory /home/ftp/pub with just read permission and change the user to sriram or any
local user you may have created never root.

[root@localhost ~]# mkdir -p /home/ftp/pub

[root@localhost ~]#cd /home

[root@localhost home]# chmod -R 444 ftp/

[root@localhost xinetd.d]# chown -R sriram.sriram /home/ftp

Restart Xinetd and see if anonymous ftp is working :

[root@localhost ~]# ftp
ftp> o
(to) localhost
Connected to localhost.
220 localhost FTP server (Version wu-2.6.2(1) Thu Jun 2 19:14:54 CEST 2005) ready.
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
Name (localhost:root): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
230-The response 'haha' is not valid
230-Next time please use your e-mail address as your password
230- for example: joe@localhost
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.

ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for directory listing.
total 32
d--x--x--x 2 root root 4096 May 14 00:10 bin
d--x--x--x 2 root root 4096 May 14 00:10 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 14 00:10 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 423 4096 May 10 2005 pub
226 Transfer complete.
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