Simplifying anonymous FTP

[Robert Locke]

On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 11:06 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 04:07:49PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Quick question... is there a way to get anonymous FTP's
> >>to automatically do a "cwd pub" when logging in (forced
> >>on the server side)?
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >I haven't used this in a long while but the ncftp program does this .
> >It goes to anonymous ftp by default and switches to pub. It also has a
> >options ((although I could not find this quickly) to ftp whole
> >directories, It can be installed by yum from extras and has a lot of
> >other neat features.
> >  
> >
> 
> Right...  But I want to do this on the server side when someone logs in
> as anonymous...  Force their session to start out in ~ftp/pub/
> 
> -Philip
> 

Jumping in in the middle here, but "man vsftpd.conf" shows the
following:


>        anon_root
>               This option represents a directory which  vsftpd  will  try  to
>               change  into  after  an  anonymous  login.  Failure is silently
>               ignored.
> 

Is this what you are looking for?

--Rob