Subject: wu-ftpd refusing Users

From: Jochen Wiedmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 00:34:32 +0100 (MET)

Hello,

I am sorry, if this isn't the right place to ask, but I didn't found
an email address for reporting problems in the wu-ftpd docs.

We are using wu-ftpd on a sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4 machine. We had no
problems for a long time.

In the last 3 days, however, there appeared a strange behaviour 2 times:
The server suddenly refuses users to login with  a message "Access
denied" immediately after the login name was entered. In one case I
could login at one moment and couldn't one minute later.

I found nothing special in the config files (ftpaccess added below).
The only thing I changed in the last days: The machine was moved to
another ethernet ring.

Does anyone have an idea, what could be wrong?

Thanks in advance,

Jochen

-------------------------- Local ftpaccess file ---------------------------
class   all   real,guest,anonymous  *

guestgroup ip-kunden

cdpath /usr/local/www/pages

limit   all   10   Any              /etc/msgs/msg.dead

readme  README*    login
readme  README*    cwd=*

message /welcome.msg            login
message .message                cwd=*

compress        yes             local remote
tar             yes             local remote

upload	/usr/local/ftp	*			no
upload	/usr/local/ftp	/pub/incoming		yes	root user 0660
upload	/ 		/usr/local/www		yes	web 209 0666
upload	/ 		/usr/local/www/*	yes	web 209 0666

log commands real
log transfers anonymous,real inbound,outbound

shutdown /etc/shutmsg

email [email-masked]

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From: Yanming PENG <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 95 0:48:08 WETDST

> could login at one moment and couldn't one minute later.
Sounds like /etc/shells problem. What is the shell of the user who
is refused by the FTP server? Is it in /etc/shells? It could be that
the user change its shell which is not in /etc/shells.

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Yanming PENG  [email-masked] http://peng.mech.kuleuven.ac.be
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