From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 17 13:37:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA14356 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:37:35 -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 NAA14344 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:37:32 -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 NAA11150; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:36:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:36:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Vince Vielhaber cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: telnet but no ftp In-Reply-To: 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 Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > > I tried it on my desktop machine and got the same result a few weeks ago > > > but didn't bother digging into it yet. Looking now at master.passwd, the > > > ones that aren't working have a password field of only 13 characters long > > > whereas the ones that do work have a length of 34 characters. Could there > > > be a connection there? Also what would cause the shorter encrypted > > > passwords? > > > > Shortened password entries usually come from installing the DES > > distribution. Your ftp server should pick it up though. Which one are > > you using? > > I don't recall installing DES, but I may very well have when I upgraded > it from 2.1.0 to 2.2.6. It appears that any user added since the upgrade > not only has the shorter encrypted password but also cannot ftp in (the > machine only has a couple of users). The ftpd I'm using is wu-ftpd 2.4.2 > which was also installed before the upgrade. I may try proftpd since I > found mention of a problem with wu-ftpd and logins in the email archives, > unfortunately there wasn't much info there about the problem. You may need to rebulid wu-ftpd on the new version, that's all. Especially if the old one was statically linked. 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