[comp.sys.next] problem with 1.0 ftpd

jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) (11/10/89)

The problem was that my shell was not listed in /etc/shells.

Thanks to Morris Meyer (NeXT OS Group) for pointing this out to me.

Jacob
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bates@wingra.stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates) (11/10/89)

In article <130034@gore.com> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes:

   I have a system on a non-NeXT network, using NetInfo, no Yellow Pages.

   The ftpd isn't working right: it responds to the connection (220 ...Version
   5.18...), but denies access for any user (530 User jacob access denied).

Are you using a shell that is not listed in /etc/shells?  If you do
something like install bash and set that as your shell you have to
enter the pathname in /etc/shells or ftp will deny access.

eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (11/10/89)

In article <130034@gore.com> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes:
>The only hints I found in the on-line docs is "ftp works" :-)

Ours works fine except for anonymous ftp--LIST doesn't work, but
NLST does so long as you don't give it a -argument (filenames are
ok).

1.0's ftpd also has the
	% ftp -n localhost
	ftp> quot pasv
crash-and-burn bug.
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eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (11/10/89)

In article <106@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>Ours works fine except for anonymous ftp--LIST doesn't work

/bin/ls is linked with the shared library in 1.0.
you have to copy libsys_s.B.shlib to ~ftp/usr/shlib/
(465K, ugh!)

It seems silly to have a shared library used by ONE executable
that doesn't get used very often.  And no, I can't hard link it
since ~ftp is on a different partition from /usr.

Could we please have a self-sufficient ls executable in a future
NeXT release?  (we already have two versions of su...)

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