silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) (04/19/91)
I recently posted: > > From the PC I can do an anonymous ftp to the PI. But if I ftp as a > regular user, I log in OK, but as soon as I execute a command the PI > tells me to reenter my USER/PASSWORD info, and I can't do anything. > This isn't a major problem, I just telnet to the PI and ftp back to the > PC, but if anyone knows an easy fix it would be appreciated. By the > way, there is no /etc/ftpusers file on the PI, so that isn't the problem. I discovered today that the problem is in the way that ftp processes passwords. If the password doesn't contain any tricky characters then the user can do an ftp login OK, but if the password contains white space the password is rejected as soon as the character is entered. Can anyone confirm this problem and offer an alternative other than restricting users to alphanumeric passwords? -- William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2. Tel. (902)426-1577 UUCP=..!{uunet|watmath}!dalcs!biome!silvert BITNET=silvert%biome%dalcs@dalac InterNet=silvert%biome@cs.dal.ca