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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




      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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