How to disable Anonymous ftp in Solaris

Unix Tips -Procedure to disable Anonymous FTP in Solaris

There are many flavors of UNIX but Sun Solaris (now Oracle Solaris) is the popular out of all. The main advantages with Solaris is that it is the most stable operating system. Though HP UX , and IBM AIX just in close competition with SUN (Now Oracle ) its a proven that Solaris is the preferred OS for high end operating platforms.  Here is some tips about solaris,

By default Anonymous FTP is enabled in Solaris 9/10 server . To disable anonymous FTP just add guest server keyword to /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess file.

#echo “guestserver” >> /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess

Then try ftp as anonymous ,you will get error message like below

ftp serverip
Connected to T2000 FTP server ready
User (129.227.159.23:(none)): anonymous
530 Guest login not allowed on this machine.
Connection closed by remote host.

Thats it, now the anonymous logins are disabled.

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