HP-UX 11i Version 1.6 Release Notes

Networking
Internet Services
Chapter 5
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WU-FTPD 2.6.1
The ftp application is a user interface to the File Transfer Protocol. Running and using
ftp on a client host, you can copy files over a network connection between the local client
host and remote server host. The server, wu-ftpd, is supported in HP-UX 11i v1.6 and
above versions.
Summary of Change
The HP-UX 11i v1.6 release installs WU-FTPD 2.6.1.
Details of Change
WU-FTPD 2.6.1 supports the following new features:
• Virtual Hosting
• Admin utility privatepw to allow modifications of group access file information
• New clauses for ftpaccess
• RFC 1413 (Identification Protocol) support
• New command line options
The HP-UX port of WU-FTPD 2.6.1 contains the following HP specific features:
• Command line options:
-m number_of_tries: specifies the number of tries for a bind() socket call;
-n nice: sets the nice value for an WU-FTPD process;
-B sets the buffer size of the data socket to blocks of size of 1024 bytes;
-p and -P: allows private port access (-p) or third party access as well as private
port access (-P) to the client.
• Support for files greater than 2 Gb is now provided.
• Support for large UIDs/GIDs is now provided.
• Trusted systems features.
Changes from previous versions of WU-FTPD:
• The option sendfiletransfer in the ftpaccess configuration file has been replaced
with new command line option -U.
• The two options suppresshostname and suppressversion have been replaced by
the new greeting option in the ftpaccess configuration file.