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Setting up an anonymous FTP server under Solaris, when using the built-in in.ftpd daemon, is a little bit different than setting it up under GNU/Linux using WUftpd.
First, let’s create the ftp user and ftp group. Then, let’s create the home directory for the ftp user:
mkdir -p /export/home/ftp
groupadd -g 99 ftp
useradd -u 99 -g 99 -s /bin/false -d /export/home/ftp
chgrp ftp:ftp /export/home/ftp
If you want anonymous users to upload files under /pub, add the following line to /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess:
upload class=anonusers /export/home/ftp /pub yes ftp ftp 0600 nodirs
Next, copy the minimal set of dynamic libraries and binaries to make possible browse and list files for anonymous users:
mkdir -p ~ftp/bin
mkdir -p ~ftp/usr/bin
ln -s ../bin ~ftp/usr/bin
cp /usr/lib/{ld,libc,libdl,libgen}.so.1 ~ftp/usr/lib
cp /bin/ls ~ftp/bin
To enable the FTP server, uncomment the following line in /etc/inetd.conf:
ftp stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/sbin/in.ftpd in.ftpd -a
and notify the inetd daemon of the change by sending the HUP signal to it:
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You can get the MAC address of the WiFi interface on a Symbian phone by typing *#622099526# (which is the same as typing *#mac0wlan#).
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If you are in charge of administering Solaris machines, you might want to take a look at PCA - Patch Check Advanced.
From its Web page:
pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for Sun Solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. By default, if run without any option or [...]
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For the past few days, and after a few hours of uptime, mplayer refused to play videos. It was hanging while trying to open the ALSA audio. I could verify this because using -ao none as a command-line argument to mplayer fixed (as in being able to play a video with no sound) the problem.
Tired [...]
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It seems that the oust of Diane Greene is having big consequences. One of them is that VMware ESXi is now a free product. I see this like a direct attack to Microsoft’s attempt to get into the virtualization market. What does this mean? That there is little reason to choose Microsoft’s hypervisor when you [...]
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Recently I bought an iPod touch. It originally came with OS 1.1.4 and as soon as Apple made the 2.0 software available (and downloadable), I upgraded.
While the new iTunes App Store is a welcome addition, I found most of the applications not very useful to me. While some like Remote, Facebook, Last.fm or eReader are [...]
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Leyendo un artículo de Kriptópolis, me encuentro con una referencia a Peter Tippett en la que éste hace un símil entre la seguridad en la industria automovilística y la industria de la seguridad informática. Aunque puedo coincidir con este señor, creo que no es una comparación del todo justa. En primer lugar, un coche es [...]
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This post is not about doing a PXE-based network installation of Ubuntu. There are already many posts describing how to do this. This post is about setting up an Ubuntu workstation in diskless mode, such as the workstation boots via PXE and the root filesystem is mounted over NFS.
The process consists on the following main [...]
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0. Introduction
Enabling Kerberos/GSSAPI support in Leopard’s Remote Login (SSH) service is straightforward. As Leopard’s Remote Login is built using OpenSSH, most of what is described here applies perfectly to other flavors of UNIX.
Kerberos/GSSAPI authentication allows for Single Sign-On capabilities in OpenSSH in such a way that it makes very convenient to work with or manage [...]
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Introduction
DISCLAIMER: The contents of this post are mostly based on Manual Installation How-To. Thanks to Brent Davidson and Fabian Franz for writing such a nice HowTo and the beautiful open and free implementation of FreeNX, respectively.
I decided to use FreeNX instead of NoMachine’s own implementation due to the instability of the latter. Most of the [...]