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From: ron@woan (Ronald S. Woan)
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Subject: Re: Tcsh/Ftp problem
Keywords: In AIX 3.1, it's in /etc/security/login.cfg
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Date: 3 Oct 90 18:47:41 GMT
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In article <wb2=FAm00VI8I5SZRm@andrew.cmu.edu>, dd26+@andrew.cmu.edu
(Douglas F. DeJulio) writes:
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).
Doug> Some versions of FTP have a security feature that prevents
Doug> people with non-standard shells from using FTP.  This is so
Doug> things like uucp accounts and finger accounts can't ftp files.
Doug> Sometimes putting the shell you're using into /etc/shells is
Doug> enough to convince these FTPs that your shell is standard, and
Doug> things start working again.

Just thought I'd mention that in AIX 3.1, the permitted login shells
are specified in /etc/security/login.cfg.

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