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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Normal user login with ProFTPd?
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Date: Mon Aug 20 02:48:01 2001
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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.

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Thomas M. Beaudry K8LA / YS1ZTM
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