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From: weimer@garden.kodak.COM (Gary Weimer (588-0953))
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Subject: Re: Why does ftp deny permission?
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.174320.8878@ssd.kodak.com>
Date: 27 Feb 91 17:43:20 GMT
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In article <ERAN.91Feb26142049@elaine3.stanford.edu>,
eran@elaine3.stanford.edu (eran yehudai) writes:
|> The ftp on my sun 3/50 (sunOS Release 4.0) refuses connection to
|> ordinary users before asking them for password:
|> 
|> unixhub% ftp thsun1
|> Connected to thsun1.SLAC.Stanford.EDU.
|> 220 thsun1.SLAC.Stanford.EDU FTP server (SunOS 4.0) ready.
|> Name (thsun1:eran): eran
|> 530 User eran access denied.
|> Login failed.
|> ftp>
|> 
|> Anonymous ftp works fine. 
|> Any ideas?

Does thsun1 have a file named /etc/ftpusers? if so, any users listed in
it will not be able to ftp to it.

weimer@ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )