Setting up anon ftp in debian...

[Gerald Combs]

Matt G wrote:
> 
>>>I'm looking to setup anonymous ftp on my debian box, and I'm not sure
>>>where to start.  I've been reading that a lot of distros use wu.ftp, but
>>>I can't tell what I'm using.
>>>
>>>Can someone point me in the right direction?
>>
>>You might try vsftpd (very secure FTP daemon, http://vsftpd.beasts.org).
>>   It's simple to set up and appears to have a Debian package.  I've had
>>good luck with ProFTPd (http://www.proftpd.org) as well.  It can be
>>harder to configure, but has more features.  WU FTP seems to be falling
>>into disuse in favor of the former products.
> 
> 
> If my regular users (created with adduser command) have ftp, then I'm
> running some ftp daemon, right?  How do I find out what that is?  When I ftp
> in, and then grep -ef | grep ftp, I see in.ftpd running.  So, I want to add
> an anon user...can I use my current setup, or should I look into one listed
> above?

It sounds like you might have wu-ftpd installed.  Do the files 
"ftpaccess" and "ftpusers" exist in /etc?  As I recall, you can enable 
anonymous FTP by removing the "anonymous" and "ftp" lines from 
/etc/ftpusers and adjust anonymous behavior in /etc/ftpaccess.