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On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:55:51AM -0400, Will Rogers wrote: |
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> <snip trouble with logging in non-anonymously to proftpd> |
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> > I can log in as a normal user just fine |
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> > |
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> ... |
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> > User blutgens logged in. |
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> > Logged in to localhost |
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> > |
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> > I'd like to help but it's nearly impossible if I can't duplicate it. |
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> After several hours of fiddling and searching the web, I fixed it. I |
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> found some similar problems mentioned on www.geocrawler.com and I put a |
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> 'RequireValidShell off' line in my proftpd.conf... and WHAM! It |
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> worked. |
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> Sheesh. |
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> Now, _why_ does that work? |
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Probably the user id associated with the login does not have a shell |
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associated with it in /etc/password. |
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-- |
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Thomas M. Beaudry K8LA / YS1ZTM |
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k8la@××××.net |
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