Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 15:00:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike DeGraw-Bertsch <mbertsch@oreilly.com> To: Udo Schweigert <ust@cert.siemens.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTP oddness Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0004281458550.2969-100000@ruby.ora.com> In-Reply-To: <20000428190322.A20204@alaska.cert.siemens.de>
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Thanks, but I haven't been trying to FTP as root. I've been coming in (and until creating another account, denied) as a regular user, which isn't in ftpusers. That's why I'm confused--there's nothing obvious pointing to why I couldn't ftp in. Thanks, -Mike On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Udo Schweigert wrote: > 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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