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From: andreess@mrlaxs.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: 3005 Networking problems (FTP)
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.024151.10317@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 91 02:41:51 GMT
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In article <910605.084713.IST.AER7101@TECHNION> AER7101%TECHNION@TAUNIVM.TAU.AC.IL (Zvika Bar-Deroma) writes:
>[...] I have  opened an APAR concerning the fact  that FTP (outgoing) works
>for me only as a superuser. Otherwise,  I don't have the chance to enter
>the password after entering the  username, and the "ftp-login" procedure
>process fails, due  to "INVALID LOGIN" (of course, it  never gave me the
>chance to enter  the pw..) [...]

We had this problem at Illinois, briefly, a while back.  Look at the
protection on /dev/tty; it should be 666.  Yours is probably 644.

Marc

[Disclaimer: I work for, but do not speak for IBM.]
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