From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 2 09:03:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA12709 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 09:03:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.realtime.net (mail1.realtime.net [205.238.128.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA12641 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 09:02:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: (qmail 56506 invoked from network); 2 May 1998 16:02:53 -0000 Received: from zoom.realtime.net (HELO zoom.bga.com) (root@205.238.128.40) by mail1.realtime.net with SMTP; 2 May 1998 16:02:53 -0000 Received: from barnowl (apm7-206.realtime.net [204.96.0.206]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA10545; Sat, 2 May 1998 11:02:50 -0500 Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 11:09:45 -0500 (CDT) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl To: Stephen Roome cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS/ftpd on 2.2.6 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 1 May 1998, Stephen Roome wrote: > > I seem to have a problem where nis users can't ftp into a machine. > > Everyone else is fine, except NIS users, even root works okay if I take > him out of /etc/ftpusers. What's really odd though is I can log in as a > nis user normally, but not ftp into the machine. > > Everything else works fine, rlogin/rsh/login/telent... > > I expect I'm just being stupid, but this works on another machine here, > (with nis) although I can't see any difference between them that would > affect this.. > > Here's an exampe: > > Connected to yakko.visint.co.uk. > 220 yakko.visint.co.uk FTP server (Version 6.00) ready. > Name (yakko:steve): > 530 User steve access denied. > > Any help would be really appreciated. > > Steve Hmmm, Well, I can ftp to the hosts on the LAN (all running NIS) but not as an anonymous login. It does require a user login name and password. Then again, I'll have to check out the way I have ftp set up. Perhaps you can post some of the details of your setup? I'm not a wizard (yet ;-)), but maybe someone will see something. John PS: I've put a draft of an NIS startup document at: http://www.realtime.net/sculpture/nis-startup.html It is based on my experience as a novice at it and any input would be appreciated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message