Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Conﬁguring a Workgroup

Sharing Files and Applications via NFS and ftp

Chapter 4 411

Step 8. In all entries in /home/ftp/etc/group, replace the password ﬁeld with

an asterisk (*):

users:*:20:acb

guest:*:21:ftp

Step 9. Change the owner of the ﬁles in ~ftp/etc to root, and set the

permissions to read only (mode 0444):

chown root /home/ftp/etc

chmod u=r,g=r,o=r /home/ftp/etc

Step 10. Create a directory pub under ~ftp, and change its owner to user ftp and

its permissions to writable by all (mode 0777).

Anonymous ftp users can put ﬁles in this directory to make them

available to other anonymous ftp users.

mkdir /home/ftp/pub

chown ftp /home/ftp/pub

chmod u=rwx,g=rwx,o=rwx /home/ftp/pub

Step 11. Create a directory dist under ~ftp. Change its owner to root and its

permissions to writable only by root (mode 0755).

mkdir /home/ftp/dist

chown root /home/ftp/dist

chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx /home/ftp/dist

Step 12. Change the owner of user ftp’s home directory to root and the

permissions to not writable (mode 0555):

chown root /home/ftp

chmod u=rx,g=rx,o=rx /home/ftp

Troubleshooting ftp login

Symptom: Some or all users can’t ftp to an HP-UX system.

NOTE If no users can ftp to a given system, check ﬁrst of all that inetd is

running on that system:

ps -ef | grep inetd