Re: Ftp setup?


Subject: Re: Ftp setup?
From: Reid Anderson (resander@cs.hamilton.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 09 2000 - 17:04:38 MST


Not yet! I haven't really set anything up yet, I was hoping I could use root
access to put the files into place, but I guess I'll have to create a new
user and a guest user to for that matter. I wasn't expecting no login and
password to get me full access, I figured maybe there was a default guest
login.

on 3/9/00 6:20 PM, Jim Cole at greyleaf@yggdrasill.net wrote:

> Reid Anderson's bits of Thu, 9 Mar 2000 translated to:
>
>> Ok, I got the G3 running YDL and the web server is working, but I don't have
>> any of the real pages there yet, just the default "It Worked!" page! I am
>> trying to ftp the real html files up to the G3 from the G4, but obviously I
>> don't have the ftp stuff setup right. I tried logging in with no username
>> or password and I also tried logging in as root with appropriate password.
>
> I am not sure what you expected to happen with no username or password ;)
> If that had worked, it would be quite scary. As for root, most default
> configs deny remote access to root, for very valid security reasons. Do
> you have a regular user account on the machine that you could try?
>
> Jim
>



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