Help with Anonymous FTP

[Chris Cheyney]

I've been trying to install AIX anonymous FTP on the PS/2 Model 80
and am having limited success.  I receive from the FTP daemon the
FTP response code:
	550 Can't set guest privileges.

I've looked at the BSD FTP daemon source code and determined that the
problem is a chroot() call failing.  The actual place where it fails is
in the pass() function, and the instance is in the code fragment following
the body of this posting.  I have no idea how much of this IBM has modified,
so I'm just guessing that they're using something based on Berkeley's
FTPD.

I've added the following line to the two copies of the password file
(note: the one in /etc and the one in /u/ftp/etc):
	ftp:NOLOGIN:34:25:Mister FTP:/u/ftp:/bin/sh
where group 25 is group 'ftp'.

I've tried setting /etc/ftpd as setuid root, group system, which also
didn't work.  When it is having problems doing chroot() calls as root,
something's amiss.

Does anyone have a clue why the chroot() call would be failing so
that I have this problem with anonymous FTP?

Any help would be appreciated.


chris
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/*
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 * All rights reserved.
 *
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 * provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
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 * by the University of California, Berkeley.  The name of the
 * University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived
 * from this software without specific prior written permission.
 * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
 * IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
 * WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
 */

/* Much BSD ftpd source deleted ..... */

pass(passwd)
	char *passwd;
{
	char *xpasswd;

	if (logged_in || pw == NULL) {
		reply(503, "Login with USER first.");
		return;
	}
	if (!guest) {		/* "ftp" is only account allowed no password */
		xpasswd = crypt(passwd, pw->pw_passwd);
		/* The strcmp does not catch null passwords! */
		if (*pw->pw_passwd == '\0' || strcmp(xpasswd, pw->pw_passwd)) {
			reply(530, "Login incorrect.");
			pw = NULL;
			return;
		}
	}
	setegid(pw->pw_gid);
	initgroups(pw->pw_name, pw->pw_gid);
	if (chdir(pw->pw_dir)) {
		reply(530, "User %s: can't change directory to %s.",
			pw->pw_name, pw->pw_dir);
		goto bad;
	}

	/* open wtmp before chroot */
	(void)sprintf(ttyline, "ftp%d", getpid());
	logwtmp(ttyline, pw->pw_name, remotehost);
	logged_in = 1;

	if (guest) {
		if (chroot(pw->pw_dir) < 0) {
			reply(550, "Can't set guest privileges.");
			goto bad;
		}
		reply(230, "Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.");
	} else
		reply(230, "User %s logged in.", pw->pw_name);
	seteuid(pw->pw_uid);
	home = pw->pw_dir;		/* home dir for globbing */
	return;
bad:
	seteuid(0);
	pw = NULL;
}

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