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From: "Will Rogers" <wjr@wam.umd.edu>
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Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] Normal user login with ProFTPd?
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<snip trouble with logging in non-anonymously to proftpd>
> I can log in as a normal user just fine
> 
...
> User blutgens logged in.
> Logged in to localhost
> 
> I'd like to help but it's nearly impossible if I can't duplicate it. 

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.

Sheesh.

Now, _why_ does that work?


Will Rogers, who is going to sleep now.
wjr@wam.umd.edu