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Denying access to the FTP service

About denying access  Top

You can configure your filer to deny the FTP service to specific users by including their user names in the /etc/ftpusers file. This file is not created automatically when the Data ONTAP software is installed on your filer; you must create it.

Format of /etc/ftpusers  Top

The /etc/ftpusers file must contain one user name per line. For NTLM authentication, the user name must also include the domain name in one of the following formats:

Editing the /etc/ftpusers file  Top

To edit the /etc/ftpusers file on your filer, complete the following steps.

Step

Action

1

Open the /etc/ftpusers file with a text editor.

2

Add the user names of the users (one name per line) to whom you want to deny access.

3

Save the /etc/ftpusers file.

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