To change the messages for logins and telnet sessions, just edit /etc/motd. For ftp messages, by default I think RedHat uses /welcome.msg , so you can either edit that file or else you should have an /etc/ftpaccess file that sets a bunch of those kinds of configurations for ftp. ftpaccess is also where you can specify logging levels for ftp transers. As for denying anonymous ftp access, I'm sure there are several ways to do this--ftpaccess probably has some deny capabilities, so you could probably set it up in there (do a man on ftpaccess, because it'll tell you way more than I can), but if not, I guess you could just move, delete or chown/chmod everything in ftp's home dir. Here's a handy link with a bunch of how-to's http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html Good luck. J -----Original Message----- From: Aditya Pande To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu Sent: 8/2/00 4:39 PM Subject: admin stuff Hi, Can anyone tell me how i can edit the messages that appear when someone logs in to a linux server via telnet, ftp? i want to customize it. I'm running Red Hat Linux 6.2 Also, how i can see logs of who logged in, what they did (file transfers, telnet sessions etc..) and how i can disable guest logins on ftp etc.? I guess the bottomline is: how do i manage server processes? if you have any info, or know of any links, i'd appreciate it. thanks. Sunny days, Aditya - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
