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PROTOR Redhat: Installing FTP Daemon on Redhat 7.2

Author:	Don Davies
Date:	10-Apr-2002

By default the RedHat 7.2 installation will not allow a remote user to connect to the system using FTPD for security reasons. It is possible to FTP from the system but not for remote users to FTP into the system. If you do wish to allow FTP access then you need to do the following. Install the ftpd RPM from the RedHat installation disk #1 either using a suitable package manager to use the following command line:

rpm --install --replacefiles --nodeps  /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/wu-ftpd-*.i386.rpm

This installation creates a file wu-ftpd in the directory /etc/xinetd.d. Edit this file and change the line "disable = yes" to "disable = no".

Restart xinetd by the command

service xinetd restart

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