Re: wu-ftp greeting

[Chris Kloiber <ckloiber redhat com>]

On Mon, 2001-12-31 at 21:14, dsavage peaknet net wrote:
> Thanks for all the responses pointing me to /etc/ftpaccess and man ftpaccess. I
> now know I should have asked a slightly different question.
> 
> After adding "greeting terse" to /etc/ftpaccess, I still get a lot more text
> output than I want. Here's what I see now:
> 
> Connected to <host.domain>
> 220 FTP server ready.
> 530 Please login with USER and PASS.
> 530 Please login with USER and PASS.
> KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type
> Name (host.domain:userid): _
> 
> How do I suppress the host.domain references and the 530/KERBEROS_V4 messages?
> I'd like to see it look something like this:
> 
> Connected.
> 220 FTP server ready.
> Name: _
> 
> --Doc Savage
>   Fairview Heights, IL

Ah. The kerberos message is not a server side problem. If you check the
output of 'which ftp' you find that it's in /usr/kerberos/bin/ftp. I
don't think you want to use that one. If you don't use kerberos enabled
clients at all, remove the krb5-workstation rpm (and krb5-server rpm).
Then it will use the ftp binary in /etc/bin. 

I don't think you can supress the USER and PASS messages, but you can
try using the -n parameter to prevent attempting auto-login. (I am a big
fan of ncftp, ncftpget, and ncftput. I don't mess with the standard ftp
command anymore.).

-- 
Chris Kloiber, RHCE
Enterprise Support
Red Hat, Inc.