On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 02:18:07PM +0000, Travis Fitch wrote:
> You need to make sure that the users shell is listed in /etc/shells
> 
> Travis
> 
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, S. Anderson wrote:
> 
> > >
> > >    Thank for answer me Sarang
> > >    When ever I use the winFTPpro to try to connect from my NT to the Linux
> > > machine, It always said "Connection refuse"
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I have the same problem(minus the NT), in my logs I get this:
> >
> > Dec  7 18:06:14 spud proftpd[6497]: spud.loco (spud.loco[10.0.0.2]) - USER ftp 
>(Login failed): Invalid shell.
> > Dec  7 18:06:14 spud proftpd[6497]: spud.loco (spud.loco[10.0.0.2]) - FTP session 
>closed.
> >
> > My question is: what shell is USER ftp supposed to have?
> >
> >
> 

I wasn't not sure if it's safe to give user ftp a shell, since its 
only used for anonymous ftp'ers, thats why I asked. Anyways I fixed 
my prob by adding 'RequireValidShell off' to /etc/proftpd.conf.

thanks
sa

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