[Info-vax] Need to set up a special purpose account

[Tom Adams]

On Friday, October 7, 2016 at 2:56:06 PM UTC-4, Steven Schweda wrote:
> > If I set the ANONYMOUS account [...]
> 
>    I would avoid fiddling around with what was probably a
> perfectly valid ANONYMOUS account.  Might be best to delete
> it, and let the TCPIP configurator make it (right) again.
> 
> > >    As usual, showing actual commands with their actual output
> > > can be more helpful than vague descriptions or
> > > interpretations.
> > 
> > There is only one command:  @tcpip$config 
> 
> > But I cannot login via ftp.
> 
>    Apparently, you read that advice about actual commands and
> actual output, but just as apparently, it didn't stick.  "I
> cannot" is not a useful problem description.  It does not say
> what you did.  It does not say what happened when you did it.
> 
> > I looked at the log file for anonymous.  It is empty.
> 
>    With my weak psychic powers, I don't know what "the log
> file for anonymous" means to you.  I seem to have missed
> where you revealed which TCPIP version you're running, but
> around here there is a general FTP log file, and an anonymous
> FTP log file.  I have convenient logical names defined, so
> that I can find them easily:
> 
>   "AFTPLOG" = "sys$sysdevice:[tcpip$ftp]tcpip$ftp_anonymous.log"
>   "FTPLOG" = "sys$sysdevice:[tcpip$ftp]tcpip$ftp_run.log"
> 
> I'd look at both.
> 
> > I even tried setting local and remote. I still could not
> > login.
> > 
> > But I mean that I cannot connect with ftp.
> 
>    Again, showing actual commands with their actual output
> can be more helpful than vague descriptions or
> interpretations.  (He said, again, to the wall.)  Around
> here, for example, where the stuff just works:
> 
> ALP $ ftp alp-l
> 220-   Antinode FTP Server.  Please be nice.
> 220 alp.antinode.info FTP Server (Version 5.7) Ready.
> Connected to alp. 
> Name (alp:system): anonymous
> 331 Guest login OK, send ident as password.
> Password:                               [I typed "fred".]
> 230-   Using a Web browser and having problems?
>       Try using a better and/or simpler FTP client.
>       Alternatively, use HTTP instead of FTP:
>          ftp://antinode.info/something ->
>          http://antinode.info/ftp/something
> 230 Guest login OK, access restrictions apply.
> FTP> quit
> 221 Goodbye.
> 
> 
>    This adds the following to FTPLOG:
> 
> %TCPIP-I-FTP_SESCON, FTP SERVER: session connection from
>  10.0.0.9 at  7-OCT-2016 11:21:48.99
> %TCPIP-I-FTP_USER, user name: ANONYMOUS
> %TCPIP-I-FTP_SESDCN, FTP SERVER: session disconnection from
>  10.0.0.9 at  7-OCT-2016 11:21:58.22
> %TCPIP-I-FTP_SESCON, FTP SERVER: session connection from
>  10.0.0.9 at  7-OCT-2016 13:45:33.94
> 
> And the following to AFTPLOG:
> 
>  7-OCT-2016 13:45:43.94 User:anonymous logged in ident:fred from Host:10.0.0.9
>  7-OCT-2016 13:46:58.40 User:anonymous ident:fred logged out
> 
> 
>    Wow.  That new copy+paste technology is a miracle.

Thanks!

I was not looking at the run log. Here's what I find:

%TCPIP-I-FTP_CHINFO, TCPIP$FTPC0001C: Failed to open anonymous log
%RMS-E-PRV, insufficient privilege or file protection violation
%TCPIP-E-FTP_LOGFAL, remote interactive login failure anonymous
-TCPIP-I-FTP_NODE, client host name: EESL.nheerl.epa.gov
-RMS-E-PRV, insufficient privilege or file protection violation

I tried renaming the anonymous log and I get the same message.

So, it can't write in that directory for some reason.

Here info on protection and owner:

$ dir [000000]ucx$ftp.dir/prot/owner

Directory SYS$SYSDEVICE:[000000]

UCX$FTP.DIR;1        [UCX$AUX,UCX$FTP]                (RWE,RWE,RE,E)

Total of 1 file.
$ dir *anon*/prot/owner

Directory SYS$SYSDEVICE:[UCX$FTP]

UCX$FTP_ANONYMOUS.LOGSAV;1
                     [UCX$AUX,UCX$FTP]                (RWED,RWED,RE,)

Total of 1 file.
$

Seems like those would be OK.

FTP_ANONYMOUS.LOG is an old file from way back, created a long time ago.  Not sure the story on when it was created.