Hi,

Can anyone advise me how to turn off anonymous FTP on my sever? I have not allowed any accounts to have this but I want to make sure its completley locked.

Thanks.

This depends on what ftp server you are running. You can probably do it by changing the ftp user's home directory to /bin/false (or /bin/true). If you are using proftpd, look for the configuration file proftpd.conf and make sure it is turned off there.

If you have ProFTPD installed, you were probably asked on install if you wanted anon. ftp or not. However you might want to check, look in your proftpd.conf file, usually in /etc/ and it should have this

# A basic anonymous configuration, no upload directories.

## <Anonymous ~ftp>
## User ftp
## Group nogroup
## # We want clients to be able to login with "anonymous" as well as "ftp
........ (more stuff).........
## # <Limit READ WRITE>
## # DenyAll
## # </Limit>
## # <Limit STOR>
## # AllowAll
## # </Limit>
## # </Directory>
##
## </Anonymous>


If that block of text doesn't have the ##'s in front then you have anon. ftp enabled. You should just be able to delete between (and including) the <Anonymous> and </Anonymous> tags.

But if you aren't using ProFTPD well then that up there means nothing :stickout Also I don't know if this works on a shared server, :) I'm just going by what config I have on my little box in the cupboard.

Seeya,

Hi,

Thanks a lot - it looks ike its already disabled from what you were saying.

Cheers.