From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 5 22:13:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B1FD14BD5 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 22:13:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA25602; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 01:15:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199911060615.BAA25602@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: anon ftp install problems In-Reply-To: <3823BB22.48690351@fastlane.net> from leoric at "Nov 5, 1999 11:22:42 pm" To: leoric@fastlane.net (leoric) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 01:15:18 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG leoric wrote, > I am trying to install freebsd 3.3 from a network cdrom. I have enabled > Anon Ftp on the machine that the cdrom is connected to. Everytime the > computer i am trying to install FBSD on tries to access the cdrom, the > computer with the cdrom says that it refused the connection. I used vipw > to add ftp:*:99:99::0:0:FTP:/cdrom:/sbin/nologin to my > /etc/master.passwd file > anyone know what file i need to edit to get the computer to accept > connection from the other computer You need to give the ftp users a _null_ password (not a '*') and a valid shell (either give ftp a valid shell or make sure /sbin/nologin is in /etc/shells). -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message