Enable Anonymous Account for Proftpd Server in RHEL/CentOS 7 | Linux Today

Enable Anonymous Account for Proftpd Server in RHEL/CentOS 7

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Ravi Saive
Sep 12, 2014

This tutorial will try to extend Proftpd functionality by allowing you to enable Anonymous account logins. Anonymous logins are used to allow users with no accounts on server to access specific directory in system hierarchy, which by default in CentOS/RHEL 7 is /var/ftp directory, without the need for the anonymous user to enter a password.

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Ravi Saive

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