Subject: Problems with Guest FTP sessions

From: "Albert So" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 15:00:04 -0800 (PST)

Hi there.

We have a copy of wu-ftpd-2.4 running on UnixWare 2.03.  We've set up
accounts for both real and guest user types.  Transferring files with
the real user class presents no problem - files are sent and received
without any difficulty.  However, when one tries to do even an 'ls' 
as a user of class guest, one gets the following error on a consistent
basis:

 230 User ludwig logged in.  User access restrictions apply.
 ftp> dir
 200 Port command successful.
 425 Can't create data socket (0.0.0.0,20): bad file number

The exact same error message comes up every single time.  Has anyone
seen this before, and if so, what needs to be done to remedy this?

Thanks
Albert So.
[email-masked]

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From: Mazinger Peter <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 06:45:17 +0100

> 425 Can't create data socket (0.0.0.0,20): bad file number

The guest-accounts home-dir has to be set up like that of ftp-user, with
/dev;/bin;/etc;/usr/lib; copying the ls command (gzip,tar, compress if needed)
shared libraries if needed. See README/INSTALL on Solaris.

Best regards,

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