From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 11 20:16:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA18127 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 20:16:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA18122 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 20:16:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA11760; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 20:16:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 20:16:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Jerry Preeper cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftpd - user login problems (with invalid hostname) In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980708093227.008a3390@crash.cts.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, 8 Jul 1998, Jerry Preeper wrote: > Hello, > > I am running a web server using FreeBSD 2.2.6 STABLE with FTP server > (Version 6.00LS). A few ftponly users (all are chrooted) at different dial > up accounts cannot log in and transfer files (about 5 out of 150). This is > usually accompanied by an "invalid hostname" in the wtmp file. What do the xferlog and the user's error message say? Note that you must have a valid shell in /etc/shells in order to log in via ftp. The nelldoesn't have to exist though; using /sbin/nologin as the user's shell is a popular way of allowing ftp access and not telnet access. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message