From: "Thomas M. Beaudry" <k8la@arrl.net>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Normal user login with ProFTPd?
Date: Mon Aug 20 02:48:01 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010820043402.A1227@ishuatan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003a01c12934$638a70e0$0801a8c0@saucer>; from wjr@wam.umd.edu on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:55:51AM -0400
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:55:51AM -0400, Will Rogers wrote:
> <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?
>
Probably the user id associated with the login does not have a shell
associated with it in /etc/password.
--
Thomas M. Beaudry K8LA / YS1ZTM
k8la@arrl.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-20 8:47 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 [this message]
2001-08-20 7:21 ` Will Rogers
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