1-9
To do…
Use the command…
Remarks
Configure the idle-timeout timer
ftp
timeout minutes
Optional
30 minutes by default.
Within the idle-timeout time, if
there is no information
interaction between the FTP
server and client, the
connection between them is
terminated.
Set the file update mode for the
FTP server
ftp update
{
fast
|
normal
}
Optional
Normal update is used by
default.
Quit to user view
quit
—
Manually release the FTP
connection established with the
specified username
free ftp user username
Optional
Available in user view
Configuring Authentication and Authorization on the FTP Server
To allow an FTP user to access certain directories on the FTP server, you need to create an account for
the user, authorizing access to the directories and associating the username and password with the
account.
The following configuration is used when the FTP server authenticates and authorizes a local FTP user.
If the FTP server needs to authenticate a remote FTP user, you need to configure authentication,
authorization and accounting (AAA) policy instead of the local user. For detailed configuration, refer to
AAA Configuration
in the
Security Volume
.
Follow these steps to configure authentication and authorization for FTP server:
To do…
Use the command…
Remarks
Enter system view
system-view
—
Create a local user and enter its
view
local-user user-name
Required
No local user exists by default,
and the system does not
support FTP anonymous user
access.
Assign a password to the user
password
{
simple
|
cipher
}
password
Required
Assign the FTP service to the
user
service-type ftp
Required
By default, the system does not
support anonymous FTP
access, and does not assign
any service. If the FTP service
is assigned, the root directory
of the device is used by default.
