From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 28 12:37:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3B1637B8FD for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 12:37:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 2451 invoked by uid 211); 28 Apr 2000 19:36:57 -0000 Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 01:06:57 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Mike DeGraw-Bertsch Cc: Udo Schweigert , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP oddness Message-ID: <20000429010657.A2439@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000428190322.A20204@alaska.cert.siemens.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from mbertsch@oreilly.com on Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 03:00:35PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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