Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!corton!mirsa!ithaque.inria.fr!jls From: jls@ithaque.inria.fr (Jean-Luc Szpyrka) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Why does ftp deny permission? Message-ID: <10330@mirsa.inria.fr> Date: 1 Mar 91 15:10:11 GMT References: Sender: news@mirsa.inria.fr Reply-To: jls@mirsa.inria.fr Distribution: comp Organization: Inria Sofia Antipolis Lines: 33 Nntp-Posting-Host: ithaque.inria.fr In article , 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? > -- > Eran Yehudai > eran@thsun1.slac.stanford.edu 1) your login name (on thsun1.SLAC.Stanford.EDU) must noy be present in the /etc/ftpusers file (if this file exists) 2) your login shell (/binsh, /bin/csh, /bin/tcsh ...) must be present in the file /etc/shells (I think it's the reason why anonymous ftp (with usually /bin/sh) works fine, and you (/bin/tcsh ???) not.) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jean-luc Szpyrka Email: jls@mirsa.inria.fr Tel: (33) 93 65 78 32 --------------------------------------------------------------------