Enable FTP service on Solaris 10

Enable ftp service:

bash-3.2# vi /etc/ftpd/ftpusers

Comment required user to connect through ftp...

Eg:

#

#  List of users denied access to the FTP server, see ftpusers(4).

#

#sol
root

daemon

bin

sys

adm

lp

uucp

nuucp

smmsp

#

/etc/ftpd/ftpusers - User ID’s that you are trying to use to login must not be there in this file.

/etc/ftpd/ftphosts - this is used to specifically dis allow ftp access to a login ID from a particular host.

By using following commands verify weather ftp service is running.

# inetadm |grep -i ftp

enabled   online         svc:/network/ftp:default

# svcs |grep -i ftp

online         Feb_08   svc:/network/ftp:default

# cat /etc/services |grep -i ftp

ftp-data        20/tcp

ftp             21/tcp

tftp            69/udp

# netstat -an |grep -i *.21

      *.21       *.*    0      0 49152      0 LISTEN

      *.21       *.*    0      0 49152      0 LISTEN

#

If ftp service is offline use following command to enable ftp server

#svcadm enable ftp

Useful ftp file details:

Reference(man pages section 1M: System Administration CommandsSun Microsystems, Inc.4150 Network Circle Santa Clara, CA 95054 U.S.A.)