On Sunday 18 January 2004 19:39, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, asker survey wrote: > > Hello everybody; > > I upgraded my 4.4 FreeBSD to 4.9. I backed up the > > /usr/home directory and /etc/*. After installing > > FreeBSD 4.9 I copied passwd , master.passwd and the > > home directories. Now the users can log in through > > telnet or ssh. But when trying to access ftp this > > message is displayed after typing the username: > > 530 User testuser access denied. > > Login failed. > Please check, if the ftp line in /etc/inetd.conf is uncommented. > If not, remove the # and reboot. You wouldn't get "530 access denied" if ftp is disabled in inetd.conf . If it was you would have gotten "connection refused".
Check if the user "testuser" has a valid shell that is listed in /etc/shells . There are some more criteria a user has to comply to before it is allowed to use ftp, for more details see "man ftpd". grtz, Daan _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"