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From: anh@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Viet Anh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: ftp won't allow users who run bash as their login shells?
Keywords: Bash, ftp
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Date: 4 Feb 91 20:39:33 GMT
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At my site (Vax 6320, Ultrix 3.1), users who run bash as their startup 
shells are denied access upon connecting to ftp.  Here is an excerpt 
of a failed session:

  Connected to media-lab.media.mit.edu.
  220 media-lab.media.mit.edu FTP server (Version 4.146 Tue Jul 25 23:56:36 
  EDT 1989) ready.
  Name (media-lab.media.mit.edu:): foobar
  Password (media-lab.media.mit.edu:foobar):
  530 User foobar access denied.
  ftp: Login failed

I did include bash in /etc/shells which I think where ftp looks up for shells 
it allows accesses. Other shells in the file (sh, csh, tcsh) work fine.

Thanks for any info.

Viet Anh
(anh@media-lab.media.mit.edu)
( \/\ @ Media Lab, MIT, Cambridge, MA, US, America, Earth )