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Date:      Thu, 24 Aug 1995 09:22:32 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
To:        Blair Schmittel <blair@itsnet.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: anonymous FTP.
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.950824092140.1200A-100000@espresso.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199508240534.XAA06489@scratchy.itsnet.com>

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On Wed, 23 Aug 1995, Blair Schmittel wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I will log into my system via anonymous ftp, I send user anonymous and
> password ???@myhost.com.  The FTP server accepts them, but then says "can't
> set guest privilegdes" then it kicks me out, I've tried everything, anybody
> have some help?

You need to make a user "ftp" in passwd.  Whatever home directory you set 
for it, that's the one that will be their initial login directory.

> 
> Thanks,
> Blair
> 
> 

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