Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 19:03:22 +0200 From: Udo Schweigert <ust@cert.siemens.de> To: Mike DeGraw-Bertsch <mbertsch@oreilly.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP oddness Message-ID: <20000428190322.A20204@alaska.cert.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0004281213380.2969-100000@ruby.ora.com>; from mbertsch@oreilly.com on Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 12:15:01PM -0400 References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0004281213380.2969-100000@ruby.ora.com>
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On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 12:15:01 -0400, Mike DeGraw-Bertsch wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a 4.0-RELEASE box that I've been trying to FTP to, and have > continually received the message that access from my account (not root) is > denied. However, once I created another user account, I can ftp into the > box from both accounts. I'm fairly confused as to why that happened. Can > anyone explain? > Concerning with security implies not to ftp into a root account since your password will not be encrypted. Thus root is contained in the /etc/ftpusers file, which contains all accounts for which ftp is denied. (A little bit confusing, that a file called ftpusers contains non-ftp users, isn`t it?) If you REALLY want it, you can delete the line containing "root" in /etc/ftpusers (but I strongly recommend not to do so). Regards -- Udo Schweigert, Siemens AG | Voice : +49 89 636 42170 ZT IK 3, Siemens CERT | Fax : +49 89 636 41166 D-81730 Muenchen / Germany | email : ust@cert.siemens.de PGP-2/5 fingerprint | D8 A5 DF 34 EC 87 E8 C6 E2 26 C4 D0 EE 80 36 B2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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