From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 28 22:14:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF6A37C4F7 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:14:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA30410; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 15:13:56 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 15:13:56 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: brandon Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp users In-Reply-To: <395AC70A.6F15C4D8@billboardaustin.com> 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 On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, brandon wrote: > I'm having a hard time creating a ftp user. I am new to freebsd and > it's obviously not the same procedure as on a linux box. i just keep > getting the user denied when i try to ftp. i creaded a regular user and > gave it a /bin/false shell..and i tried adding the user to > /etc/ftpusers...i'm not sure where to go from here...i'd appriciate any > help man ftpd - look for the section that explains the 5 rules for user authentication. Might be because the shell is invalid... > > brandon > -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message