Subject: [933] RE: [928] 530 User fred access denied...

From: "The best things in life ... are fantasy." <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 11:40:33 -0500 (EST)

It may be that you need to create a /etc/shells listing all
valid shells that are on your system. I had that problem on the
second machine I installed wu-ftpd-2.4 on. (See note 5 in the
Installation Notes -- INSTALL).

Hope this helps,

PCVS

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From: Bob Sichler <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 17:13:27 -0500 (EST)

>From: Stefan Rensing <[email-masked]>
>Subject: [928] 530 User fred access denied...

>Hi all,
>I just installed wu-ftpd 2.4 on another SUN running Solaris 2.3.
>I made the same configuration as on a system where it's already running properly.
>I double checked it. The Anonymous FTP works quite well, whereas the real
>user login leads to:
>530 User fred access denied...
>Login failed.
>whenever you enter a real user-id.
>Does anybody has a hint on that error message number or on the nature of the
>problem ?

I ran into the same problem.  There is a file that holds the legal
user shells, called /etc/shells.  If the users are set up like 
the default users under Solaris 2.3, they use /sbin/sh, which is not
in the default /etc/shells file.  I think if you add that entry to
the file your problem will go away.

Regards,

Bob

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From: Christopher Holland <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 16:48:17 -0600 (CST)

> These are defined in the ftpaccess file, or perhaps /etc/ftpusers. look 
> for user "fred" in the ftpusers file, and double check the deny commands 
> in ftpaccess. 
> 

Make sure that ALL of the user's shells are listed in the "shells" file for 
ftpd. I had this problem when I switched some users to bash.  They couldn't
log in once they put in their real username on FTP.

Chris Holland