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Date:      Tue, 03 Dec 2002 22:01:50 -0800
From:      Kurt Bigler <kurt@breathsense.com>
To:        Duncan Anker <d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: strange ftpd login problem
Message-ID:  <BA12DA4E.4B3B%kurt@breathsense.com>
In-Reply-To: <1038974467.4060.34.camel@duncan.au.darkbluesea.com>

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on 12/3/02 8:01 PM, Duncan Anker <d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com> 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


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