Hello,
Thanks to the following people:
leclerc@austin.wireline.slb.com
fetrow@biostat.washington.edu
Shane.Youl@mel.dit.csiro.au
Marc.Rinfret@eng.canadair.ca
barmar@think.com
tkevans@fallst.es.dupont.com
ca@informatik.uni-kiel.de
eckhard@ts.go.dlr.de
glenn@uniq.com.au
david@srv.pacbell.com
tanya@ora.com
perryh@pluto.rain.com
pln@egret1.stanford.edu
dlogics!ljm@uunet.uu.net
hand@cnj.digex.com
heas@chpc.org
dbarron@csci0.uark.edu
miker@il.us.swissbank.com
hkatz@med.nyu.edu
bern@kleopatra.uni-trier.de
gpr@proteon.com
mjewison@nereid.sal.ists.ca
nick@dsd.es.com
bwalker@hns.com
Ronald.C.Russell@ag.auburn.edu
mcain@mcs.drexel.edu
kamal@clio.rad.sunysb.edu
The question I asked seems to be a very simple one. My problem, that
certain users were not allowed to FTP into their accounts, was caused by
the fact that these people used non-standard shells: they all used
tcsh. And I did not have a file called /etc/shells listing trusted shells.
I created a /etc/shells file containing:
/bin/sh
/bin/csh
/usr/local/bin/tcsh
/usr/local/bin/bash
and everything worked fine after that.
Some people also suggested that perhaps a file called /etc/ftpusers (a
blacklist file of people who are not allowed to FTP) was causing the problem.
Thanks again for everyone's patient suggestions. I'm sorry about asking such
a ridiculously simple question.
Regards,
Michael A. Meystel
System & Network Administration
IMPACT Center, College of Engineering
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA USA
+ 1 215 895 5807 / meystel@impact.drexel.edu
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