[SunHELP] ftp help

David Rouse sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Fri Oct 26 09:53:41 CDT 2001


On Friday, October 26, 2001, at 09:55  AM, Craig T. Abram wrote:

> I can ftp out - no problem. When I try to ftp to the Netra,
> it accepts User ID and Password and then comes back and says the
> root password is wrong. The password is fine as we can telnet into
> this box from any other. Cannot ftp with a user ID or root.
>

You can login remotely as root, but can't ftp as root? I'd check 
/etc/ftpusers and see if root has an entry, that would prevent root ftp.

NOTE -- there are people who would warn against allow either root ftp or 
a direct login remotely as root.

--
drouse





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