Bug 124306

Summary:	ftpusers(5) man page says /etc/ftpusers is mandatory to enable ftp access, but it's not
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Clément Lavoillotte <clement.lavoillotte>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Clément Lavoillotte 2008-06-05 18:30:01 UTC

According to ftpusers(5), "If the ftpusers file does not exist, all users
are denied access.".

This appears to be incorrect. Since I can't find this feature in
src/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.c, I suppose that the error is in the doc.

Fix: 

Remove the incorrect line from the doc.
How-To-Repeat: - man ftpusers
- moving /etc/ftpusers to /etc/ftpusers.bak doesn't prevent user login

Comment 1 Remko Lodder freebsd_committer

2008-06-05 21:32:45 UTC

Clément Lavoillotte wrote:

You are wrong :-) We have two ftpd.c's.

# grep ftpusers /usr/src/contrib/lukemftpd/src/ftpd.c
                         /* check user in /etc/ftpusers, and setup class */
  * Check if user is allowed by /etc/ftpusers
                 reply(0, "Deny bad ftpusers(5) quickly: %sabled",


lukemftpd has the ftpusers(5)..

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Comment 2 Remko Lodder freebsd_committer

2008-06-05 21:33:12 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Lukemftpd has the ftusers(5).

Comment 3 Clément Lavoillotte 2008-06-05 22:53:43 UTC

Hi,

Ok sorry :)
Perhaps it should be mentioned in this line that it only applies to =20
lukemftpd ? It may be obvious for most users, but it wasn't for me =20
since I didn't see "lukemftpd" anywhere in ftpusers(5) [nor in ftpd(8) =20=

or the handbook ftpd page].
I'm quite new to FreeBSD, so I may not have searched long enough, but =20=

I think adding this note to the man page would help people like me to =20=

figure out the difference (and not to pollute your PR db) :)

Thanks for your time.

Regards,
Cl=E9ment

Le 5 juin 08 =E0 22:32, Remko Lodder a =E9crit :

> Cl=E9ment Lavoillotte wrote:
>
> You are wrong :-) We have two ftpd.c's.
>
> # grep ftpusers /usr/src/contrib/lukemftpd/src/ftpd.c
>                        /* check user in /etc/ftpusers, and setup =20
> class */
> * Check if user is allowed by /etc/ftpusers
>                reply(0, "Deny bad ftpusers(5) quickly: %sabled",
>
>
> lukemftpd has the ftpusers(5)..
>
> --=20
>
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