[comp.sys.mac.comm] problem with ftppass and NCSA Telnet 2.3

robin@csuchico.edu (Robin Goldstone) (09/15/90)

I am unable to get NCSA Telnet 2.3 (or BYU Telnet 2.3.1) to recognize
my password for FTP.  In config.tel I have:
ftp=yes
passfile="mydisk:teldir:ftppass"

I ran the telpass program (version 1.0), set up a user named robin and
set a password, saved the file as ftppass and quit the telpass program.

When I telnet to a (unix) host then ftp back to my mac, I get:
220 Macintosh Resident FTP server, ready
Name (132.241.80.104:robin): robin
Password (132.241.80.104:robin):
331 Password required
530 Login failed
ftp: Login failed

What am I doing wrong?

Robin Goldstone, Systems Software Specialist
California State University, Chico Computing Services
robin@csuchico.edu

meldal@bach.Stanford.EDU (Sigurd Meldal) (09/15/90)

In article <1990Sep14.195330.28620@ecst.csuchico.edu> robin@csuchico.edu (Robin Goldstone) writes:
>I am unable to get NCSA Telnet 2.3 (or BYU Telnet 2.3.1) to recognize
>my password for FTP.  In config.tel I have:
>ftp=yes
>passfile="mydisk:teldir:ftppass"
>
>I ran the telpass program (version 1.0), set up a user named robin and
>set a password, saved the file as ftppass and quit the telpass program.

 [enumerates symptoms]

The problem is probably the following:

telpass puts the new file into the same directory itself is in. You
have to copy the ftppass file from there to the folder indicated by
your config file, i.e. to mydisk:teldir:ftppass.

Good luck

Sigurd