Subject: [844] Re: [842] use of ftphosts file

From: [email-masked] (Frank Cusack Jr.)
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 1994 12:57:27 -0500

At 10:18 AM 12/6/94, Bob Haar wrote:
>I am running wu-ftpd v2.4 on SunOS 4.1.3 and am having a problem
>with the ftphosts file setup.
>
>Is there a limit to the length of the line on an "allow" entry?
>
>Everything was working fine until I added another pattern to
>an existing long line, and then all ftp sessions (real and
>anonymous) started to fail with a note in the messages file
>that said "FTP LOGIN REFUSED (name in /usr/local/etc/ftphosts)" .
>
>The only non-comment that I have in that file is one "allow" line
>that is about 256 characters long. Did I hit some internal buffer
>size limit?
>
>Can I have multiple "allow" entries with shorter lines?

yup.

--frank

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From: Michael Todd Glazier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 1994 20:41:01 -0500 (EST)

I'm getting numbers in ls -l instead of owner and group names.
I have a passwd and group file in the etc dir, as directed. :)

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Michael Todd

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From: Ed Beaumont <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 1994 12:58:50 +1000 (EST)

> I have a passwd and group file in the etc dir, as directed. :)

Do the numbers match anything in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group?

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From: Michael Todd Glazier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 1994 22:03:08 -0500 (EST)

Yup! That's why I'm baffled. And the permissions are 444 as mentioned in 
the ftpd man page.

- mTg