Re: [Fink-users] ProFTPd not starting: Unknown user 'ftp'

[Oscar Erlandsson]

Ok, I've read them, but I think I'm going to need a bit more 
hand-holding here. From what I understand, PAM takes care of all 
authentication services, passing them on to services that handle them. 
And from what I can make out of the /etc/pam.d/ files, netinfo should 
be able to take care of authentication -- obviously normal unix 
handling is mentioned there too, but none of the normal users on my 
machine are mentioned in /etc/passwd, so I suppose netinfo should be 
sufficient? I remember discussion when 10.2 came out about how Apple 
was abandoning NetInfo, but everything has continued to work pretty 
much the same way for me, and I've fiddled quite a bit with NetInfo 
(especially stuff that related to /machines, adding aliases for IPs on 
my network) and this has worked just as before, so why doesn't my ftp 
user work all of a sudden?

In any case, this doesn't explain why my updating broke proftpd -- it 
worked flawlessly before I updated passwd and proftpd.

Thanks a bunch for all your help!

On tisdag, feb 25, 2003, at 03:47 Europe/Stockholm, Justin Hallett 
wrote:

netinfo is PAM read the docs on PAM, else you need to add them as unix
users.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This, despite the fact that a user ftp:ftp (uid/gid 349) are visible 
in
my netinfo db. I also tried creating a new user ftpd:ftp, but that
changed nothing. Even trying to run the daemon as root:admin didn't
work. Restarting NetInfo changes nothing.

---
Oscar Erlandsson [erlandsson at mac dot com]


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