Subject: [903] Can't upload while logged in as real user

From: "Sheerin, Peter" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 17:23:05 -0800 (PST)

I'm experiencing a wierd problem, running under AIX.
     
     If I login to our ftp server under my username, with password, and log 
     to a directory of which I'm a member of the group, I can't upload 
     files to that directory or create directories in it, even though my 
     account has full permissions, and I can do so from a shell account.
     
     Here is the directory entry:
     
     drwxrwxr-x  12 ftp      ftpadmin     512 Dec  1 12:13 cadence
     
     I'm a member of ftpadmin, though it's not the group set as default in 
     my /etc/passwd entry.
     
     The error message I recieve is:
     
     ftp> send welcome.msg
     200 PORT command successful.
     553 welcome.msg: Permission denied.
     ftp>
     
     Is there any way to get ftpd to recognize my membership in multiple 
     groups, or am I stuck with only the rights associated with my default 
     group, as defined in /etc/passwd ?

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From: Jonathan Trawick <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 01:39:42 -1000

Hello all,

I am having a terrible time with 2.4, on a 4.1.3 system.  Below are the 
problems that I have been having, has anyone else been experiencing this 
as well.  I am using the latest version of gcc, so I don't think there is 
a problem there.  

1.  I got the package from wu and set it up to compile, only I got the 
error message NGROUPS_MAX undefined, in ftpcmd.y (when trying to compile).  I 
checked the include lib. dir. and found that NGROUPS_MAX is defined in the
file limits.h. I adjusted the file to point to limits.h and recompiled.  
It compiles fine, no errors, then did an install which also goes ok.  
Only thing is it wont work. keeps responding server shutdown.

2.  I recompile the package with a define NGROUPS_MAX = 16 (as in the 
limits.h file).  It compiles without errors.  I install the package and 
it works  twice, but then is back to the same message server shutdown, 
and will not start again (it has only worked this one time).  

I have tried the two steps above a couple of times, but have not been to 
get it to work again.

Anyone got any ideas???
thanks,

Jonathan Trawick			Honolulu Community College
					University of Hawaii

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From: Nick Albright <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 13:12:50 -0500 (EST)

I'm having problems compiling wu-ftpd-2.4 for an SGI Indigo 2 running 
IRIX 5.3.  I type 'build sgi', but get the following errors:

---------Begin------------

cfe: Warning 581: /usr/include/stdarg.h:133: Macro va_start redefined.
cfe: Warning 581: /usr/include/stdarg.h:140: Macro _VA_ALIGN redefined.
cfe: Warning 581: /usr/include/stdarg.h:146: Macro __va_stack_arg redefined.
cfe: Warning 609: ftpd.c: 2021: The number of arguments in the macro invocation does not match the definition
cfe: Warning 609: ftpd.c: 2072: The number of arguments in the macro invocation does not match the definition
cfe: Warning 609: ftpd.c: 2699: The number of arguments in the macro invocation does not match the definition
cfe: Error: ftpd.c, line 2021: Syntax Error
     (ap = ((char *)& + sizeof())) ;
 ------------------------------^
cfe: Error: ftpd.c, line 2072: Syntax Error
     (ap = ((char *)& + sizeof())) ;
 ------------------------------^
cfe: Error: ftpd.c, line 2699: Syntax Error
     (ap = ((char *)& + sizeof())) ;
 ------------------------------^

-----------End-----------

  Does anyone know of a fix?

  Thanx for your time,
    -Nick

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From: Tim Wicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 11:14:46 -0800

------ Nick Albright, <Pine.SGI.3.91.941213130839.1714A-100000@maxwell> wri

did you make sure you were building it with 'cc -cckr'??

i had to change the sgi config file to add "#define NCARGS  10240"
as well.

tim