Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!rex!samsung!uunet!shearson.com!newshost!nwc From: nwc@galileo.shearson.com (Nick Christopher) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: ftp won't allow users who run bash as their login shells? Message-ID: Date: 5 Feb 91 13:27:06 GMT References: <5113@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@shearson.com (News) Reply-To: nwc@sisyphus.shearson.com Organization: Lehman Brothers Lines: 11 In-Reply-To: anh@media-lab.media.mit.edu's message of 4 Feb 91 20:39:33 GMT ftp checks the file /etc/shells to find a list of valid login shells (in addition to /bin/csh and /bin/sh that is). So if you want to use bash or tcsh etc. just add a new, single line, entry to that file containing the name of the shell with the path included. -- \n Nicholas Christopher (212) 464-3837 Internet: nwc@sisyphus.shearson.com uunet: uunet!sisyphus.shearson.com!nwc