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From: earle@poseur.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle - Sun JPL on-site Software Support)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: ftp fails when bash is login shell
Summary: /etc/shells
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Date: 28 Aug 89 07:16:23 GMT
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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?

Your pathname to `bash' (e.g., `/usr/local/bin/bash') must be in the
file `/etc/shells'.

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	Greg Earle
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