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Special Forums IP Networking Enable PWD command on anonymous FTP? Post 302073250 by HiredGun79 on Thursday 11th of May 2006 09:18:29 AM

05-11-2006

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Hello and thanks for the reply.

The server is running some sort of Sun flavor of Unix. (best I can tell). The ftp clients I have tried have been the built in FTP in Dreamweaver 2004 MX and FileZilla. Both connect to the server ok, then when they try to print the current directory (pwd) the get a 550 error message and after seeing the error message, they both disconnect before I can actually do anything on the server.

CuteFTP and Dreamweaver 4 connect fine. I discovered that Dreamweaver 4 still performs the pwd command, but when it encounters the error, it ignores it rather than disconnect.

I have also used the DOS command line ftp client. I can connect ok using that and when I try to use pwd I cannot.

Here's the directory structure. I can connect to / and /foo_1/ with no problem and pwd works in those directories. The folder I need to connect to is /foo_1/foo_2/foo_3/

when I change directory into foo_1 and foo_2 I do not have access to use any command, not even ls. And when I get to the folder I need, foo_3, I can use nearly all ftp commands but pwd. PWD kicks up the 550 error.

Unfortunately, I cannot give you guys the FTP info.

What I do have is the ear of an unsympathetic IT guy who DOES have permission to copy files around, change permissions, etc.

When I asked him to let me use PWD, he said that he would have to give my group readable permission and that would break security. I do connect anonymously.

So this guy is not willing to find a work around which is why I'm here.

I either need:

A) The proper way to get pwd to work without compromising security, without making my group readable.

B) What I need to do to get my binary in the right place to "act" like the pwd command. . A simply "hello world" binary should be able to run without read access.

C) Any other solution, hopefully on the server side - while I could use a different FTP client, we have customers who we transfer files to on this box, and we don't want to have to give them esoteric directions to get their favorite ftp client to work.

Also, I did find a thread in devshed forums written by one of the admins in this forum, Perderabo, where he said that "pwd can't work in it's pure form if there are folders between the root folder and the target folder" I think that's the bottom issue - I know there has to be a proper work around on the server side. It seems to me like the IT guy who runs the server doesn't mean to disable PWD, it's just that it's a side effect of security.

Ok, done rambling - let me know if you all need more information!

Thanks again!

HiredGun79

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pwd

pwd(3tcl)						       Tcl Built-In Commands							 pwd(3tcl)

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NAME

       pwd - Return the absolute path of the current working directory

SYNOPSIS

       pwd
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DESCRIPTION

       Returns the absolute path name of the current working directory.

EXAMPLE

       Sometimes it is useful to change to a known directory when running some external command using exec, but it is important to keep the appli-
       cation usually running in the directory that it was started in (unless the user specifies otherwise) since that minimizes  user	confusion.
       The way to do this is to save the current directory while the external command is being run:
	      set tarFile [file normalize somefile.tar]
	      set savedDir [pwd]
	      cd /tmp
	      exec tar -xf $tarFile
	      cd $savedDir

SEE ALSO

       file(3tcl), cd(3tcl), glob(3tcl), filename(3tcl)

KEYWORDS

       working directory

Tcl																	 pwd(3tcl)