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From: ejs@goldhill.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: FTP (user) and access problems
Keywords: Software
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Date: 17 May 89 17:36:45 GMT
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Original-Date: Wed, 10 May 89 09:55:05 EDT
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 291, message 3 of 16

Thanks to wnl for the answer to my FTP problem.  I created an /etc/shells
file listing all the shells that are in use at our site and FTP started
working fine.  Was /etc/shells documented?  The man page for ftp and ftpd
didn't mention this file.

-- Eric

[[ You have to read ftpd(8) verrrrry carefully.  There's a paragraph that
starts out "ftpd authenticates users according to three rules" and it
enumerates those rules.  Rule number 2 says that the user's shell must be
"standard" as defined by getusershell(3).  Guess what?  You now have to go
read getusershell(3) to find out what the criterion is.  /etc/shells is
documented there.  Wonderful, huh?  --wnl ]]