Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 22:01:50 -0800 From: Kurt Bigler <kurt@breathsense.com> To: Duncan Anker <d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: strange ftpd login problem Message-ID: <BA12DA4E.4B3B%kurt@breathsense.com> In-Reply-To: <1038974467.4060.34.camel@duncan.au.darkbluesea.com>
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on 12/3/02 8:01 PM, Duncan Anker <d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 13:55, Kurt Bigler wrote: >> I am using a VPS service provider who is running: >> FreeBSD 4.6.1-RELEASE-p10 >> FTP server (Version 6.00LS) >> >> A user is having problems with FTP login using GoLive 6.0 on MacOS X. The >> user has no problems with other FTP servers. I tried a series of passwords >> and he tried each with the result being that only passwords that begin with >> his user name permit a successful login. I installed GoLive 6.0 myself >> under MacOS X and for me all passwords work on his account. > > That sounds really bizarre - is this Go Live under Mac OS X on a > *different* machine that it works though? Yes, different machine at a different site under a different connection provider. >> So unless you have a hunch about this, I would like to be able to view the >> FTP sessions from the server side. Is there a way to arrange this using >> ftpd? I can use a different port if necessary. Alternatively I could >> manually emulate an FTP server if I could create some talk-style interface >> that his FTP client could connect to, but I have no idea how to do that. Is >> there a way to connect a terminal up to an incoming FTP port? >> >> Thanks for any help. >> > > I haven't used it, but I recently read about a utility called sockspy, > which is meant to sit between servers and clients for the purpose of > debugging network issues like this. > > Try http://sockspy.sourceforge.net/sockspy.html (URL obtained from > SysAdmin magazine, December 2002) I'll take a look. Thanks! > Hope that helps To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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