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Special Forums IP Networking Enable PWD command on anonymous FTP? Post 302073331 by jim mcnamara on Thursday 11th of May 2006 10:34:24 PM
Old 05-11-2006
If you cd to a bad or unavailable directory, ftp generates an error.
Older versions of ftp clients don't need to "show pwd" when they connect.

So, I must be getting too old, but I fail see why you can't use a version that does not care about pwd, unless you are trying to get files whose names and locations you don't know. Your code should not care about pwd.

And, if the system in question is an IT sox box, why don't you run rsync under ssh? If the box is the mastewr, there is no violation. You connect, rsync moves/updates all of the files/directories. You don't need to know anything on your side.
 

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pwd.h

pwd.h(3HEAD)							      Headers							      pwd.h(3HEAD)

NAME

       pwd.h, pwd - password structure

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pwd.h>

DESCRIPTION

       The <pwd.h> header provides a definition for struct passwd, which includes the following members:

	 char  *pw_name     user's login name
	 uid_t pw_uid	    numerical user ID
	 gid_t pw_gid	    numerical group ID
	 char  *pw_dir	    initial working di rectory
	 char  *pw_shell    program to use as shell

       The gid_t and uid_t types are defined as described in <sys/types.h>. See types.h(3HEAD).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       getpwnam(3C), types.h(3HEAD), attributes(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.11							    10 Sep 2004 						      pwd.h(3HEAD)
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