ANONYMOUSLOGINMSG (FTP server) statement

Use the ANONYMOUSLOGINMSG statement to specify a z/OS® UNIX file or MVS™ data set whose contents are to be displayed to the end user when an anonymous user logs in.

Syntax

Parameters

file-path

Either a z/OS UNIX path name or a fully qualified MVS data set name. If the first character is a slash, file-path is considered a z/OS UNIX name; otherwise, it is treated as a fully qualified MVS data set name.

Rules:

When specifying a z/OS UNIX file-path, file-path is always an absolute pathname in the anonymous user's root directory. The anonymous user's root directory depends on the values coded or set to the default value for ANONYMOUSLEVEL and STARTDIRECTORY statements in FTP.DATA.
When ANONYMOUSLEVEL 1 is coded in FTP.DATA, or when STARTDIRECTORY MVS is coded in FTP.DATA, the anonymous user's root directory is the z/OS UNIX root directory. Therefore, you specify file-path as an absolute pathname in the z/OS UNIX without regard to the anonymous user's home directory.
When the ANONYMOUSLEVEL value is greater than one, and the STARTDIRECTORY is z/OS UNIX, the anonymous user's root directory is the anonymous userID home directory. Therefore, the file identified by file-pathhas to reside within the anonymous user's home directory or one of its subdirectories, and you specify file-path as an absolute pathname, but relative to the anonymous userID home directory.

Examples

To display the contents of the TCPIP.ANONYM.LOGIN.MSG data set when an anonymous user logs into FTP, enter the following code:

ANONYMOUSLOGINMSG TCPIP.ANONYM.LOGIN.MSG

For example, you might have created userID GUEST with home directory /u/anonymous for anonymous logins, and you have coded these statements in FTP.DATA:

ANONYMOUS GUEST
ANONYMOUSLEVEL 3
STARTDIRECTORY HFS
ANONYMOUSFILEACCESS HFS

To display the contents of /u/anonymous/banner when an anonymous user logs into FTP, code the following statement in FTP.DATA:

ANONYMOUSLOGINMSG /banner

To display the contents of /etc/banner when an anonymous user logs into FTP, you must copy /etc/banner into /u/anonymous or into a subdirectory such as /u/anonymous/etc because the z/OS UNIX directory /etc is outside the anonymous userID's root directory.

Again, suppose you have created userID GUEST with home directory /u/anonymous for anonymous logins, and you have coded these statements in FTP.DATA:

ANONYMOUS GUEST
ANONYMOUSLEVEL 1

To display the contents of /u/anonymous/banner when an anymous user logs into FTP, code the following statement in FTP.DATA:

ANONYMOUSLOGINMSG /u/anonymous/banner

In this case you specify the pathname /u/anonymous/banner because the anonymous userID root directory is /.

Usage notes

ANONYMOUSLOGINMSG is not dependent upon the value of ANONYMOUSLEVEL.
If an installation is required to display the same login messages to both anonymous and known users, the same file-path can be specified on both the ANONYMOUSLOGINMSG and LOGINMSG statements.