Mac OS X Server

Reconfigure Xinetd to Eliminate FTP Wait in 10.3 Server

Tthe FTP service uses RFC 931 for user identification, which isn’t supported in Mac OS X (why we’ll move on to other FTP servers in the future). To resolve, add the -I option in the xinetd configuration as you see here:

service ftp
{
disable = no
instances       = 100
socket_type     = stream
wait            = no
user            = root
server          = /usr/libexec/xftpd
server_args     = -aI
groups          = yes
}