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From: arnold@mathcs.emory.edu (Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC})
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: ftp fails when bash is login shell
Message-ID: <4293@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 24 Aug 89 18:52:11 GMT
References: <JES.89Aug24122551@mbio.med.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: arnold@emory.UUCP (Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC})
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In article <JES.89Aug24122551@mbio.med.upenn.edu> jes@mbio.med.upenn.edu (Joe Smith) writes:
>We're having a problem when bash (1.02) is installed as the login
>shell: ftp refuses any logins from a remote system with the message
>'user jes access denied, Login failed' (SunOS 4.0).  Does ftp not
>recognize bash as a valid shell, or did I miss something in the
>installation?

Put the pathname for bash into /etc/shells.  Check out the doc on ftpd
which details these sorts of things.

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