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Re: ftp question



On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:17:40PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote:
> 
> Apparently, as soon as ftp saw that obsd had a shell of /usr/bin/false
> and wasn't in ftpchroot, it rejected me.  When I changed obsd's shell
> back to ksh, I could log in and poke around in places I "didn't
> belong".  Could this be your problem?  
> 

I didn't see anyone mention /etc/shells.  ftpd checks /etc/shells for a
valid shell (see ftpd(8) and shells(5)).  If /usr/bin/false was not
listed, then access is denied whether the user is listed in
/etc/ftpchroot or not.

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Dan Harnett <danh@wzrd.com>