13 FTP Server Administration

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a client/server protocol that allows a user on one computer to transfer files to and from another computer over a TCP/IP network. When you set up an anonymous FTP account on your system, any remote user can access your system by means of the user name ftp or anonymous. Once logged in, the user has access to only a special directory hierarchy containing public files, and can copy these files to another system using FTP. Anonymous FTP is a very useful information vehicle on the Internet, but it poses particular security issues for the host system.

Internet Express includes the Pure-FTP server.

From the Manage Components menu, choose Pure-FTP Server (Section : Administering Pure-FTP Server)

Administering Pure-FTP Server

To access Pure-FTP Server Administration, from the Manage Components menu, choose Pure-FTP server. The Pure-FTP Server Administration menu (Figure 65) displays.

Figure 65 Pure-FTP Server Administration Menu

You can perform the the following Pure-FTP Server administration tasks:

•Create or modify an anonymous Pure-FTP user account (Section : Creating or Modifying an Anonymous Pure-FTP User Account)

•Enable or disable anonymous Pure-FTP access on your system (Section : Enabling or Disabling Anonymous Pure-FTP Access)

•Enable or disable chroot (Section : Enabling or Disabling chroot)

•Display the active Pure-FTP users (Section : Displaying Active Pure-FTP Users)

•Enable or disable Pure-FTP Server (Section : Enabling or Disabling Pure-FTP server)

Creating or Modifying an Anonymous Pure-FTP User Account

To create the anonymous FTP account on your system, follow these steps:

1.From the Administration utility Main menu, choose Manage Components.

2.From the Manage Components menu, choose Pure-FTP Server.

3.From the Pure-FTP Server Administration menu, choose Create/Modify Pure-FTP User Account.

4.On the Create Pure-FTP User Account form, enter the following information:

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