unRAID OS Version:  V6 beta 14b

 

Description:

The default FTP service shows as running whether there is a username specified or not

 

I had added a username, couldn't connect to the FTP service, (although that's not the issue) and subsequently deleted the user, so according to the wiki the service shouldn't be running.

 

as stated in the wiki

 

 

From the unRAID V6 Manual, FTP section, "Users can connect via FTP if they are added to the FTP user(s) field on this page. If no users are added, the FTP service will not be started."

 

So apparently, the built in FTP service runs or doesn't run based on whether any users are listed in the user(s) field on the FTP settings page.  Try blanking it.

 

Here's what I'm seeing

 

 

I tried booting from my backup key so that I might see if adding a user causes it to start and subsequent deletion doesn't stop it, but even with a blank config the service was running.

 

How to reproduce:

 

Go to FTP in settings, service is running whether there is a user or not - I did test this on a completely new Unraid install with no plugins - same version as my normal install (6b14b)

 

However I first noticed it when I carried out the below steps

 

1. Add FTP user (I do not recall if the service was running at this point)

2. Delete FTP user

 

Expected results:

If there is no user then service should not show as running.

 

Actual results:

If there is no user service is still running

 

EDIT: Sorry didn't read the sticky, have edited my post to conform to guidelines.  Won't happen again, please be nice 

Just looked at this on my system.  Although the GUI shows the status as running even though no users are defined I could not actually find an FTP process running so it may just be a GUI reporting issue and the actual behaviour of the underlying unRAID system is as defined.

Just looked at this on my system.  Although the GUI shows the status as running even though no users are defined I could not actually find an FTP process running so it may just be a GUI reporting issue and the actual behaviour of the underlying unRAID system is as defined.

 

I came to the same conclusion, perhaps should have edited my original post.

Umm actually we have this in netstat

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:21              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1488/inetd

so ftp is enabled, but will fail if there are no valid users.

 

Can we rather have it disabled and enabled on demand with a GUI checkbox?

FYI this has requested a couple of times but we have never managed to catch it in the roadmap.

 

LT/jonp can we capture this (Its not my place to put jobs on the LT to do list