Re: anonymous ftp directly to a device

["Daniel F. Montagnese" <dmontagnese mutoh com>]

Gordon Messmer wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 08:17, Daniel F. Montagnese wrote:
> >
> > at the command line.  Any file "put" in the directory would be written
> > to the device and the results of "ls" would still be what it was before.
> > The "put" file would not be added to the "ls" list.  I wonder how that
> > was done.   ????????
>
> Simple.  Make the directory a+wx,a-r (mode 333).  Anyone can write files
> to the directory, but no one (except root) can get a list of the files
> therein.  You just have to configure the FTP server to allow uploads to
> that directory, by default uploads should be disallowed.
>
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Thank you for the response.  I still wonder how the file is written directly
to the device listed in the server ftp directory and how
the login is accomplished by only "ftp id_address"  at the client command
line not followed by "user me" and "password mine".