Hitchhiker's Guide to Openbsd

Directory Setup
Along with the user, this created the directory /home/ftp. This is what we want, but there are some changes 
that we will have to make to get it ready for anonymous ftp. Again these changes are explained in the 
ftpd
(8)
 man page. 
You do not need to make a /home/ftp/usr or /home/ftp/bin directory. 
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/home/ftp - This is the main directory. It should be owned by root and have permissions of 555. 
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/home/ftp/etc - This is entirely optional and not recommended, as it only serves to give out 
information on users which exist on your box. If you want your anonymous ftp directory to appear 
to have real users attached to your files, you should copy /etc/pwd.db and /etc/group to this 
directory. This directory should be mode 511, and the two files should be mode 444. These are 
used to give owner names as opposed to numbers. There are no passwords stored in pwd.db, they 
are all in spwd.db, so don't copy that over. 
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/home/ftp/pub - This is a standard directory to place files in which you wish to share. This directory 
should also be mode 555. 
Note that all these directories should be owned by ''root''. Here is a listing of what the directories should 
look like after their creation. 
# pwd
/home
# ls -laR ftp
total 5
dr-xr-xr-x 5 root ftp 512 Jul 6 11:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 512 Jul 6 10:58 ..
dr-x--x--x 2 root ftp 512 Jul 6 11:34 etc
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root ftp 512 Jul 6 11:33 pub
ftp/etc:
total 43
dr-x--x--x 2 root ftp 512 Jul 6 11:34 .
dr-xr-xr-x 5 root ftp 512 Jul 6 11:33 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 root ftp 316 Jul 6 11:34 group
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-r--r--r-- 1 root ftp 40960 Jul 6 11:34 pwd.db
ftp/pub:
total 2
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root ftp 512 Jul 6 11:33 .
dr-xr-xr-x 5 root ftp 512 Jul 6 11:33 ..