Enabling/disabling FTP on NPS (Red Hat 5.2)

Answer

Although FTP is shipped with the Red Hat 5.2 NPS server, it is disabled by default.

To enable it, you need to edit a file and turn the service on. You must be the root user to do this.

[root@nps_server ~]# cd /etc/xinetd.d
[root@nps_server xinetd.d]# vi gssftp
# default: off
# description: The kerberized FTP server accepts FTP connections \
#              that can be authenticated with Kerberos 5.
service ftp
{
    disable            = no
    flags              = REUSE
    socket_type        = stream        
    wait               = no
    user               = root
    server             = /usr/kerberos/sbin/ftpd
    server_args        = -l -a
    log_on_failure    += USERID
}

server_args = -l -a

server_args = -l

[root@nps_server xinetd.d]# chkconfig gssftp on
[root@nps_server xinetd.d]# service xinetd restart
Stopping xinetd:                                     [  OK  ]
Starting xinetd:                                     [  OK  ]

user@my-laptop:~$ ftp 192.168.100.10
Connected to 192.168.100.10.
220 nps_server FTP server (Version 5.60) ready.
Name (192.168.100.10:user): nz
331 Password required for nz.
Password:
230 User nz logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 76
-rw------- 1 nz 14866 May  4 15:18 .bash_history
-r-xr-xr-x 1 nz  1309 Nov  5 16:33 .bash_profile
-r-xr-xr-x 1 nz   616 Nov  5 16:33 .bashrc
-rw------- 1 nz    55 Feb 10 13:42 .lesshst
-rw------- 1 nz 12882 Apr  6 10:31 .nzsql_history
drwx------ 2 nz  4096 Nov  7 14:16 .ssh
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nz  7557 Jan 31 10:39 test.dat
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nz     0 Jan 27 13:09 typescript
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.

user@my-laptop:~$ ftp 192.168.100.10
ftp: connect: Connection refused
ftp> quit