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Date:      Tue, 16 Feb 1999 01:35:53 GMT
From:      mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
To:        shelton@sentry.granch.ru ("Rashid N. Achilov")
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bug in wu-ftpd?
Message-ID:  <36c8c992.334361466@mail.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <MAIL36C7BA5B.7ECEE7DB@sentry.granch.ru>
References:  <MAIL36C7BA5B.7ECEE7DB@sentry.granch.ru>

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On 15 Feb 1999 01:45:36 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.misc you wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I install wu-ftpd-2.4.2-beta18-VR13 patch. When I attempt login as
>anonymous, on console constanlty appear message "/etc/spwd.db: No such
>file or directory", anonymous login succesfull. Set rights 0666 has not
>effect. After small looking in source code I discover that message
>appear after getpwuid call in ftpd.c line 2704. I do not have any ideas
>about this message, and you? 

Its looking for a passwd file so it can map usernames to uids... Copy
/etc/pwd.db into ~ftp/etc

Make sure its *NOT* /etc/spwd.db... Thats the one that contains encrypted
passwords.  Just cp /etc/pwd.db* ~ftp/etc

	---Mike
Mike Tancsa  (mdtancsa@sentex.net)		
Sentex Communications Corp,   		
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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