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From: meldal@bach.Stanford.EDU (Sigurd Meldal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: problem with ftppass and NCSA Telnet 2.3
Message-ID: <152@bach.stanford.edu>
Date: 15 Sep 90 02:03:23 GMT
References: <1990Sep14.195330.28620@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Sender: meldal@bach.STANFORD.EDU (Sigurd Meldal)
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In article <1990Sep14.195330.28620@ecst.csuchico.edu> robin@csuchico.edu (Robin Goldstone) writes:
>I am unable to get NCSA Telnet 2.3 (or BYU Telnet 2.3.1) to recognize
>my password for FTP.  In config.tel I have:
>ftp=yes
>passfile="mydisk:teldir:ftppass"
>
>I ran the telpass program (version 1.0), set up a user named robin and
>set a password, saved the file as ftppass and quit the telpass program.

 [enumerates symptoms]

The problem is probably the following:

telpass puts the new file into the same directory itself is in. You
have to copy the ftppass file from there to the folder indicated by
your config file, i.e. to mydisk:teldir:ftppass.

Good luck

Sigurd