On Monday, August 20, 2001 at 4:34 AM, Thomas M. Beaudry wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:55:51AM -0400, Will Rogers wrote:
> > <snip trouble with logging in non-anonymously to proftpd>
> >
> > After several hours of fiddling and searching the web, I fixed it.  I
> > found some similar problems mentioned on www.geocrawler.com and I put a
> > 'RequireValidShell off' line in my proftpd.conf...  and WHAM!  It
> > worked.
> >
> > Now, _why_ does that work?
> >
>
> Probably the user id associated with the login does not have a shell
> associated with it in /etc/password.

Ahh...  yes.  That makes perfect sense.  Both user accounts I tried it with
have no shell set (defaults to bash).  That didn't occur to me at 1am when I
was banging my head against the wall trying to fix it.

Thanks a ton, I feel much better now.

Will Rogers
wjr@...