WU-FTPD 2.6.1 release notes (5900-1547, January 2011)
Table Of Contents
- WU-FTPD 2.6.1 release notes
- Contents
- 1 WU-FTPD 2.6.1 Release Notes
- Announcement
- What Is In This Version
- WU-FTPD 2.6.1 Features
- Support for TLS/SSL
- Cryptography Algorithm
- Prerequisites for Configuring the TLS/SSL Feature
- Certificates and Authorities
- Generating Certificates and Keys Using OpenSSL 0.9.7m
- Configuring a WU-FTPD TLS Server and an FTP Client
- Configuring an FTP Server in a TLS/SSL Environment
- Configuring an FTP Client in a TLS/SSL Environment
- Basic Configuration for Secured File Transfer
- Virtual FTP Support
- Setting up Virtual FTP Support
- Support for Virtual FTP
- Without ftpservers (4) File
- Usage
- The virtual address allow usernameand virtual address deny username directives
- The virtual address private directive
- The virtual address root path and virtual address banner path directives
- The virtual address logfile path directive
- The virtual address hostname string directive
- The virtual address root path and virtual address email string directives
- The virtual address incmail emailaddress directive
- The virtual address mailfrom emailaddress directive
- Usage
- With ftpservers(4) File
- Usage
- The virtual address allow username and virtual address deny username directives
- The virtual address private directive
- The root path directive
- The banner path directive
- The logfile path directive
- The hostname some.host.name directive
- The email emailaddress directive
- The incmail emailaddress directive
- The mailfrom emailaddress directive
- Usage
- Without ftpservers (4) File
- Setting up a Virtual FTP Server
- The privatepw Utility
- New Clauses in the /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess File
- Enabling the Identification Protocol (RFC 1413)
- New Feature Related to Data Transfer
- Field Added to the /var/adm/syslog/xferlog File
- Command-Line Options
- IPv6 Support
- HP-Specific Features
- Other Features
- Support for TLS/SSL
- Changed and Removed Features
- Compatibility and Installation Information
- Known Problems and Limitations
- Related Information
- Defects Fixed in This Release
ftp -z CAfile=/etc/ftpd/security/ca.pem -z
cert=/home/user1/certificate.pem -z
key=/home/user1/private-key.pem <server-name>
• Using the Configuration File
To start the FTP client using a configuration file, run the following command:
ftp -z config=<config-file> <server-name>
where:
config-file Specifies the name of the configuration file.
server-name Specifies the name of the server to which date must be
transferred.
5. Start the FTP client to initiate a secured file transfer to the FTP server system.
Following is a sample output when the FTP client connects to the FTP server:
client:/tmp>ftp server-machine
Connected to server-machine.
220 server-machine FTP server (Revision 1.1 Version wuftpd-2.6.1
(PHNE_36065) Fri May 30
15:30:32 GMT 2008) ready.
234 AUTH TLS OK.
[TLSv1/SSLv3, cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, 256 bits]
Name (server-machine:root): abc
232 User abc auto-logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> prot on
200 PROT P ok.
TLS/SSL protection of data connections on.
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode private data connection for /usr/bin/ls.
total 96
-rw-r--r-- 1 abc users 23 May 30 14:01 end.txt
-rw-rw-rw- 1 abc users 13 May 25 14:57 start.txt
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> get end.txt
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode private data connection for end.txt (23 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
23 bytes received in 0.07 seconds (0.33 Kbytes/s)
ftp> by
221-You have transferred 23 bytes in 1 files.
221-Total traffic for this session was 1108 bytes in 2 transfers.
221-Thank you for using the FTP service on charokee.ind.hp.com.
221 Goodbye.
client-machine:/tmp>
Virtual FTP Support
Virtual FTP support enables you to manage an FTP server for multiple domains on the
same machine.
Virtual FTP allows an administrator to configure a system to display a different banner,
log file, and directory to a user when the user is connected to different domains on the
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