SUMMARY: FTP mystery

From: Karen Thomas <kthomas_at_dilbert.sysoff.ctstateu.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 16:24:27 -0500

I had originally asked:

I am trying to FTP from my Digital UNIX machine to another machine on our
network. When I do FTP as root, I am able to do it fine. But when I FTP as
myself, it gives me login invalid at remote node. I know that it is my unix
machine definitely. I verified by trying to FTP to 3 different systems with
3 different operating systems (VMS, SUN and ULTRIX) and different accounts
--> Same thing each time I tried to use my UNIX account and not root.

This is what the error looks like when I tried to go to a local VMS machine:

Name (vmsmachine:unixuser): vmsuser
331 User name (vmsuser) ok. Password, please.
530 %SYSTEM-F-INVLOGIN, login information invalid at remote node
Login failed.
Remote system type is VMS.

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The answer was the permissions on the /dev/tty file. It was 600 and it should
have been 666. That is why root was able to ftp but no other user could.


Thanks to:

   SLOANE_at_KUHUB.CC.UKAN
   mnk_at_wuerl.wustl.edu
   steve_at_arachnid.conve
   luchini_at_siberia.ups-
   neeland_at_madmax.hrl.h
   kutlu_at_ege.edu.tr
   watkins_at_hhmi.swmed.e
   mgx_at_ornl.gov
   leocc_at_fumsoft.softex
   tom_at_homer.bus.miami.
   jlevine_at_clock.bldrdo
   Hans.Ranke_at_Regent.E-
   philip_at_uvo.dec.com
   Knut.Hellebo_at_nho.hyd
   m_beltramo_at_scomp1.so
   rl1_at_irz.inf.tu-dresd

Thanks,

Karen Thomas
THOMASK_at_CSUNET.CTSTATEU.EDU
Connecticut State University System Office
Received on Mon Mar 18 1996 - 22:45:40 NZST

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