HowTo customize the ftp welcome banner?

[ACE²]

Hello,

I want to customize the ftp welcome banner.

Out of the box you get:
"220 Disk Station FTP server at hostname ready."

Any opportunity to hide the Vendor to give no information about the server to the OutSide world like this:

"220 FTP Server ready."

kind regards

Tom

[momo]

Hi there,
unfortunately ftp daemon has hard-coded the string.
To resolve hostname, it is doing a uname command.

But you can customize by adding an file nammed /etc/ftpwelcome.
This file is read by the ftpd and displayed before authentification.

Once connected and authenticated, you can customize too by adding a file named /etc/ftpmotd.
It is displayed just after the login.
But you are not able to put escape stuff like %M or %U.

hope this helps.
ciaoooo

[TommyN]

I've followed your advice and have created the file /etc/ftpwelcome
But how do I write to this file when logged in with SSH?

[TommyN]

I've followed your advice and have created the file /etc/ftpwelcome
But how do I write to this file when logged in with SSH?

Okay, I figured out how to write to the file in VI editor, but when I log in to the ftp, it shows:

[21:56:34] [R] Connected to DiskStation
[21:56:34] [R] 220- FTP Server ready
[21:56:34] [R] 220 Disk Station FTP server at DiskStation ready.

It reads the line from /etc/ftpwelcome but it still shows the default diskstation welcome banner to.
How do I get wrid of this?

[kurgandk]

this is usually what the -h or -H option would be for but it seems the ftpd on the syno does currently not support that option

[bvdbos]

you could do this by manually editing synoinfo.conf when logged in as root (not as admin).

[bvdbos]

or better: you can use the package "confige file editor"
http://www.mertymade.com/syno/index.html#cfe

[TommyN]

That's a nifty toy. Installed the package and edited the section with mail. Worked perfectly