User can't log into FTP.

1996-11-26 Thread Daniel Stringfield
One of my default system users (www-data to be exact) can't log in.
My other users can.  

I'm using the wu-ftpd from rex.

I don't see anywhere that this user is not allowed to log in to FTP.

What must I do to allow that user to login via ftp?  I want to be able to
give someone access to the web server files, but thats all.  
What AM I missing?

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Re: User can't log into FTP.

1996-11-26 Thread Brian C. White
 One of my default system users (www-data to be exact) can't log in.
 My other users can.

Make sure that the shell specified for that user in /etc/passwd is
listed in the file /etc/shells.


 I don't see anywhere that this user is not allowed to log in to FTP.
 
 What must I do to allow that user to login via ftp?  I want to be able to
 give someone access to the web server files, but thats all.
 What AM I missing?

From man ftpd...

 Ftpd authenticates users according to three rules.

   1.   The user name must be in the password data base, /etc/passwd,
and not have a null password.  In this case a password must be
provided by the client before any file operations may be perĀ­
formed.

   2.   The user name must not appear in the file /etc/ftpusers (see
ftpusers(5)).

   3.   The user must have a standard shell returned by
getusershell(3).

   4.   If the user name is ``anonymous'' or ``ftp'', an anonymous ftp
account must be present in the password file (user ``ftp'').
In this case the user is allowed to log in by specifying any
password (by convention this is given as the client host's
name).


Hmmm...  That's four rules...
 
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