Re: Redhat 4.0 : ftpd problems

Scott Manley (spm@star.arm.ac.uk)
Thu, 31 Oct 1996 17:04:52 +0000

> Has anybody else noticed the wu-ftpd doesn't handle anonymous logins correctly ?
> if one logs in as ftp and doesn't supply the correct password, the server hangs.
>
> Trying to find the bug, i noticed it doesn't happen if debugging is turned on.
>
> Anyways, if one has succeeded in logging in as anonymous, ls always returns
> an empty directory. However, cd to directories that exist is possible.
>
> Maybe that's all related to a chroot bug in kernel 2.0.21 ?
>

I found this oput today as well, although the empty directory problem only
seems to occur if you use anonymous ftp on the same machine (kind of pointless
really). Ftp seems to get a directory listing from other machines.

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