Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 11:09:45 -0500 (CDT) From: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com> To: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS/ftpd on 2.2.6 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980502105332.13214A-100000@barnowl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980501132243.7858B-100000@wakko.visint.co.uk>
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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): <return> > 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
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