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You could use ktrace(1) to determine what the ftpd daemon is actually doing.

rh> Is the user's shell listed in /etc/shells?  It must be there for ftpd to
rh> let them in.

vt>       I run FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE machine. I use ftpd for ftp server
daemon. It has
vt> very strange behavior with one of user accounts on my machine.
Every one user