Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!haven!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!dd26+ From: dd26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Douglas F. DeJulio) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: Tcsh/Ftp problem Message-ID: Date: 2 Oct 90 15:37:48 GMT References: <9010021256.AA28358@omicron.cs.fsu.edu> Organization: Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 12 In-Reply-To: <9010021256.AA28358@omicron.cs.fsu.edu> rganesh@omicron.cs.fsu.edu (nu) writes: > I switched to tcsh and ftp doesn't seem to work (ie ftp to a machine > which has tcsh as your primary shell). Some versions of FTP have a security feature that prevents people with non-standard shells from using FTP. This is so things like uucp accounts and finger accounts can't ftp files. Sometimes putting the shell you're using into /etc/shells is enough to convince these FTPs that your shell is standard, and things start working again. -- Doug DeJulio dd26@andrew.cmu.edu