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On Monday, August 20, 2001 at 4:34 AM, Thomas M. Beaudry wrote: |
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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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> > 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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> > 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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Ahh... yes. That makes perfect sense. Both user accounts I tried it with |
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have no shell set (defaults to bash). That didn't occur to me at 1am when I |
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was banging my head against the wall trying to fix it. |
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Thanks a ton, I feel much better now. |
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Will Rogers |
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wjr@×××××××.edu |