Thanks for the fast replies from
Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs_at_natur.cuni.cz>
AlBert DeKnuydt <Bert.Deknuydt_at_esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
Knut Hellebų <Knut.Hellebo_at_nho.hydro.com>
Jim Belonis <belonis_at_dirac.phys.washington.edu>
Hans Ranke <Hans.Ranke_at_ei.tum.de>
Dave Tetreault <davet_at_uriacc.uri.edu>
It was rather simpel, all pointed out that the shell must be in
/etc/shells
With this it works.
(As I already mentioned my Unix background is low. I checked the
man pages for ftp but overlooked it, I am still learning...)
Thanks
Otto
Original message:
> Hi all,
>
> I have several DUnuix systems
> A (V3.2g), B(v4.0b), C(V4.0d), ...
> the problem is users can do ftp only to node A. Trying
> #ftp B or C
> results in
> Name:(B:root): titze
Is the shell of user titze listed in /etc/shells file?
Isn't the user mentioned in /etc/ftpusers file?
Hope this helps
Martin
> 530 User titze access denied.
> Login failed.
> (I.e. it didn't even ask for the password)
>
> I compared most settings (and files /etc/inetd.conf,services...)
> for nodes A and e.g. C but did not find any difference. It probably
> may depend how I run these nodes. Node A was my first one. All
> users are here on a local disk (/userd/users). I always enter new
> users here, afterwards I copy the /etc/passwd to nodes B, C, ... (I
> do not (yet) use NIS. I first will bring all my systems to the same
> revision level). /userd ist mounted by NFS on B,C...
>
> All normal users have /bin/bash as default shell. I sometimes in
> the past installed bash on A and copied it to /bin on B, C,...
>
> Now back to my problem: It may depend on bash (or the way I
> installed it). I added a new user xxx on node C with /bin/sh as
> default shell. And with this username I could login with ftp
> without problems.
>
> There are no problems for all users to login via telnet
> #telnet B or C. (And because their was no need to do ftp to B,C
> because all disk are NFS mounted on A, I dicovered the ftp problem
> only accidentally)
>
> Has someone a hint what is wrong with my environment? (I am not
> very experienced with Unix, my background is VMS)
>
> Thanks and regards
>
> Otto
>
> PS: Followup problem:
> I cannot remove the newly created user xxx on node C. Trying
> #removeuser for xxx
> it displays
> "This is the entry for (xxx) in the /etc/passwd file:
>
> (...correct entry...)
>
> "is this the entry you want to delete (y/n)"; y
> But then
> "Working...userdel: Specified user not found"
>
> And indeed the entry is still in the passwd file. Of course I could
> get rid of this but it is interesting what happens here.
>
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Received on Wed Aug 19 1998 - 08:38:43 NZST