Note that if I substitute some other path for the user's home directory
in the /etc/passwd file, even if that path does not exist, then the
transfer actually works. So as I suspected there is nothing wrong with
the CA Certificates directory.
Why would gridftp be fussy about /dev/null in particular?
Steve Timm
On Wed, 16 Apr 2014, Steven Timm wrote:
I am currently upgrading some gridftp servers from a quite old version
of globus to the latest version. These were special-purpose gridftp
servers in which most of the users did not actually have a home directory.
Now I get the following error message:
bash-3.2$ ./gftpcheck
error: globus_ftp_client: the server responded with an error
500 500-Command failed. : callback failed.
500-globus_sysconfig: Could not find a valid trusted CA certificates
directory
500-globus_sysconfig: Could not find a valid home directory for the current
user
500-globus_sysconfig: File is not a directory: /dev/null is not a directory
500 End.
I do indeed have /dev/null listed as the home directory for this user in
the /etc/passwd file. Is that no longer allowed?
Steve Timm
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Grid and Cloud Services Dept., Associate Dept. Head for Cloud Computing
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[email protected] http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/
Fermilab Scientific Computing Division, Scientific Computing Services Quad.
Grid and Cloud Services Dept., Associate Dept. Head for Cloud Computing
