Responder Profile
A responder profile defines the credentials used to validate the incoming user name and password. When a match is made, the Local User ID is used for the active file transfer. Each responder profile definition is defined in a clear text file named cfrprofile.cfg.
A responder profile contains the following information:
- Node: the remote system with which the responder profile is associated.
- Remote user name: the user name supplied by the remote system initiating the transfer. It does not have to be a valid user name in the local system.
- Remote password: the password supplied by the remote system initiating the transfer (encrypted). If the remote user is a verified user, this parameter must be set to *VER in the responder profile.
- Local user name: the local user name used to process a transfer request on your local machine when a match is made on the incoming Node and UserId/Password credentials.
You can add or update responder profiles through the cfrprofile command. Before you update any information in cfrprofile.cfg, a backup of this file called cfrprofile.bak is created. You can activate responder profiles by simply specifying the node for a transfer.
When PasswordRuleChecking
is turned on, the ValidatePwdRules() function for remote password is used to check the password given when the responder profile was created. *VER
password is an exception from this check, it is not validated. During password validation, the password characters are compared with the rules provided in the config.txt
file. For more information, see Common Configuration Parameters.