SUMMARY: FTP access

From: David R Courtade (drc@amherst.com)
Date: Sat Oct 15 1994 - 09:47:45 CDT


Original question below. The fix for my FTP problems was quickly
discovered by many (This group IS amazing). The users unable to FTP were
not running a default shell, and adding the shell path to /etc/shells
fixed the FTP access.

Thanks to:

Xueshan Feng sfeng@ced.berkely.edu
Tim Evans tkevans@eplrx7.es.duPont.com
Kevin Johnson johnsk@dssserv.fw.gs.com
Danny Barron dbarron@comp.uark.edu
Jon Hamilton hamilton@cs.iastate.edu
Lori Colleran lcollera@amgen.com
Dave Fetrow fetrow@biostat.washington.edu
John M Blasik john@mlb.semi.harris.com
Michael Meystel MEYSTMA%DUVM.BITNET@pucc.Princeton.EDU
Ric Anderson ric@Artisoft.com
Ralph C Wolman rcw@netrix.com
Robert Wolf rwolf@dciem.dnd.ca

The original post:

>
> Hello managers.
>
> I hope I am missing something sort of obvious.
> I seem to have an FTP problem. Trying to FTP between nodes in our
> building, I can access some machines, but not others using my accounts.
> Some others have the same problems. I can gain access through some other
> accounts on the same machines. e.g.
>
> ftp spr202 and entering drc gets the messages:
> Connected to spr202
> 220 spr202 FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready.
> 530 User drc access denied.
> Login failed.



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