russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u) (05/24/91)
I am about to put up a patched version of ftpd on our system. I was testing it on a workstation when I noticed that I could not log on to it using my normal login. The workstation is diskless and uses NIS to access the password file from the main system. I relinked ftpd with -lsun to get the NIS aware versions of getpwent etc and all worked fine. I then checked the distributed versions of ftpd to see if they were NIS aware (this is Irix 3.3.2) and found that it was not. I then tried to ftp to a SUN (SUNOS 4.1.1) that also shares the main password file by NIS with the same result. My question is this: Is there some special reason why SGI and SUN both distribute their ftpds so that only people with entries in the local /etc/passwd file can get access to the system via ftp? Or to put it another way is there some good reason for me not to link my version -lsun. Thanks, Russell. -- Russell Fulton, Computer Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand. <rj_fulton@aukuni.ac.nz>