From: "Will Rogers" <wjr@wam.umd.edu>
To: <gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Normal user login with ProFTPd?
Date: Mon Aug 20 07:21:01 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002401c1297b$99da2090$8f8010ac@itgenesis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20010820043402.A1227@ishuatan
On Monday, August 20, 2001 at 4:34 AM, Thomas M. Beaudry wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:55:51AM -0400, Will Rogers wrote:
> > <snip trouble with logging in non-anonymously to proftpd>
> >
> > After several hours of fiddling and searching the web, I fixed it. I
> > found some similar problems mentioned on www.geocrawler.com and I put a
> > 'RequireValidShell off' line in my proftpd.conf... and WHAM! It
> > worked.
> >
> > Now, _why_ does that work?
> >
>
> Probably the user id associated with the login does not have a shell
> associated with it in /etc/password.
Ahh... yes. That makes perfect sense. Both user accounts I tried it with
have no shell set (defaults to bash). That didn't occur to me at 1am when I
was banging my head against the wall trying to fix it.
Thanks a ton, I feel much better now.
Will Rogers
wjr@wam.umd.edu
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-20 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-19 17:48 [gentoo-dev] Normal user login with ProFTPd? Will Rogers
2001-08-19 19:39 ` Chad Huneycutt
2001-08-19 21:10 ` Will Rogers
2001-08-19 21:42 ` Ben Lutgens
2001-08-19 22:56 ` Will Rogers
2001-08-20 2:48 ` Thomas M. Beaudry
2001-08-20 7:21 ` Will Rogers [this message]
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