From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 3 22: 2: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FEEC37B401 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:02:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from vps.breathsense.com (vps.breathsense.com [64.105.194.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25ECB43ECD for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:02:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kurt@breathsense.com) Received: (qmail 33966 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2002 06:01:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.63?) (12.240.223.236) by vps.breathsense.com with SMTP; 4 Dec 2002 06:01:51 -0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.0.3 Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 22:01:50 -0800 Subject: Re: strange ftpd login problem From: Kurt Bigler To: Duncan Anker Cc: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1038974467.4060.34.camel@duncan.au.darkbluesea.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG on 12/3/02 8:01 PM, Duncan Anker wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 13:55, Kurt Bigler wrote: >> I am using a VPS service provider who is running: >> FreeBSD 4.6.1-RELEASE-p10 >> FTP server (Version 6.00LS) >> >> A user is having problems with FTP login using GoLive 6.0 on MacOS X. The >> user has no problems with other FTP servers. I tried a series of passwords >> and he tried each with the result being that only passwords that begin with >> his user name permit a successful login. I installed GoLive 6.0 myself >> under MacOS X and for me all passwords work on his account. > > That sounds really bizarre - is this Go Live under Mac OS X on a > *different* machine that it works though? Yes, different machine at a different site under a different connection provider. >> So unless you have a hunch about this, I would like to be able to view the >> FTP sessions from the server side. Is there a way to arrange this using >> ftpd? I can use a different port if necessary. Alternatively I could >> manually emulate an FTP server if I could create some talk-style interface >> that his FTP client could connect to, but I have no idea how to do that. Is >> there a way to connect a terminal up to an incoming FTP port? >> >> Thanks for any help. >> > > I haven't used it, but I recently read about a utility called sockspy, > which is meant to sit between servers and clients for the purpose of > debugging network issues like this. > > Try http://sockspy.sourceforge.net/sockspy.html (URL obtained from > SysAdmin magazine, December 2002) I'll take a look. Thanks! > Hope that helps To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message