From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 28 14:26: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ruby.ora.com (ruby.ora.com [63.80.158.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C63937BA03 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:25:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbertsch@ruby.ora.com) Received: from localhost (mbertsch@localhost) by ruby.ora.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA00485; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 17:24:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 17:24:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike DeGraw-Bertsch To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP oddness In-Reply-To: <20000429010657.A2439@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Exactly what the problem was... I really ought to RTFM a bit more carefully. Thanks! -Mike On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Mike DeGraw-Bertsch said on Apr 28, 2000 at 15:00:35: > > Thanks, but I haven't been trying to FTP as root. I've been coming in > > (and until creating another account, denied) as a regular user, which > > isn't in ftpusers. That's why I'm confused--there's nothing obvious > > pointing to why I couldn't ftp in. > > Another thing that could prevent you from logging in as yourself under > ftp is if your default shell isn't listed in /etc/shells . Could it > be that when you added the other account, you also added this entry > (installing the shell from a port would do it automatically) so you > could then log in to both accounts? > > Rahul. > > > > > Thanks, > > -Mike > > > > On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Udo Schweigert wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 12:15:01 -0400, Mike DeGraw-Bertsch wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I have a 4.0-RELEASE box that I've been trying to FTP to, and have > > > > continually received the message that access from my account (not root) is > > > > denied. However, once I created another user account, I can ftp into the > > > > box from both accounts. I'm fairly confused as to why that happened. Can > > > > anyone explain? > > > > > > > > > > Concerning with security implies not to ftp into a root account since > > > your password will not be encrypted. Thus root is contained in the > > > /etc/ftpusers file, which contains all accounts for which ftp is denied. > > > (A little bit confusing, that a file called ftpusers contains non-ftp users, > > > isn`t it?) > > > > > > If you REALLY want it, you can delete the line containing "root" in > > > /etc/ftpusers (but I strongly recommend not to do so). > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > -- > > > Udo Schweigert, Siemens AG | Voice : +49 89 636 42170 > > > ZT IK 3, Siemens CERT | Fax : +49 89 636 41166 > > > D-81730 Muenchen / Germany | email : ust@cert.siemens.de > > > PGP-2/5 fingerprint | D8 A5 DF 34 EC 87 E8 C6 E2 26 C4 D0 EE 80 36 B2 > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message