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How to enable FTP in Lion

Apple have decided that we should no longer use FTP and therefore removed the GUI settings option in:
"Open System Preferences --> Sharing --> File Sharing"

(I would prefere to take that decision on my own but...)

Anyhow the ftp-deamon is actually still there so it only takes you a well written unix command to enable it back again:

...and to swith if off again when I decide that I no longer need it:

Done.

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  1. Nov 09, 2011

    Khaled Daham

    There are quite a few daemons that installs a plist file, MacPorts provides it for some services as well, for example.

    sudo -s launchctl load -w /opt/local//etc/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.proftpd/org.macports.proftpd.plist

    sudo -s launchctl unload -w ...

    Personally I use this way of controlling what services I want to run at a given time, be it ftp servers, http servers or databases.