HP-UX 11i June 2001 Release Notes

Internet and Networking Services
New Versions of FTPD
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New Versions of FTPD
This release contains a new version of FTPD. The new version of FTPD is
a replacement for the legacy FTPD. In addition to supporting the FTP
protocol defined in RFC 959, the following new features are provided:
• Logging of transfers.
• Logging of commands.
• On the fly compression and archiving.
• Classification of users on type and location.
• Per-directory upload permissions.
• Restricted guest accounts.
• System wide and per directory messages.
• Directory alias.
• CD path.
• Filename filter.
• Virtual host support.
• Per- class limits — ability to define “classes” of users, according to the
source IP addresses and/or hostnames, and to limit access according
to user class.
Existing installations do not have to modify their FTP configuration
unless they want to use the new features.
The major differences between legacy FTPD and the new version of
FTPD are as follows:
Table 10-1 New FTP daemon options
-d Logs debugging information in syslog.
-m number of
tries
Specifies the number of tries for a bind()
socket call.
-a Enables the use of the ftpaccess file, which
is used to configure the operation of FTPD.