Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:36:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: telnet but no ftp Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808171336290.26224-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.94.980817054801.15695B-100000@cinnamon.michvhf.com >
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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
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