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Date:      Tue, 12 Sep 2000 18:13:35 -0300 (ART)
From:      Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To:        nathan <beemern@telecom.ksu.edu>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ftpd denies some logins
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009121809190.97272-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
In-Reply-To: <39BE96D7.75C4B8FA@telecom.ksu.edu>

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On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, nathan wrote:

> having a long day... my ftpd won't allow some users to login
> 
> i've added two users today and neither can login thru ftp successfully.
> if i login as an old user thats been on the system awhile.. it works
> fine.
> 
> i'm using  FTP server (Version wu-2.6.0(1)
> and the new users aren't in /etc/ftpusers  (which means they ARE allowed
> to login)

check if the user's shell is in /etc/shells. From ftpd(8):

4.   The user must have a standard shell returned by
     getusershell(3).

if they are using, tcsh, bash or zsh that may be the cause.

> 
> i just can't figure why they wouldn't be allowed to ftp
> 
> thanks!
> nathan
> 
> 
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