[Sunhelp] FTP

[Alan Rubin]

i've had this problem before.  make sure root's shell is in /etc/shells.

alan

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Paul Khoury wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 12:17:52 +0100, Markus Dhr wrote:
> 
> >> Name (cyprus:root): root
> >> 331 Password required for root.
> >> Password:
> >> 530 Login incorrect.
> >> Login failed.
> >> ftp>
> >
> >You have a /etc/ftpusers? Delete the user 'root' from this file and you will
> >be able to ftp as root, although I do not recommend this - cleartext
> >password is transmitted...
> >
> 
> Markus, I didn't find that file, on either sparc2 nor cyprus - sparc2 works fine.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> SunHELP maillist  -  SunHELP at sunhelp.org
> http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/sunhelp
> 
> 

_________________
*Alan Rubin*
Sun/Unix/Networking/ISP/Web Writing
Email:rubin at ezy.net