Subject: Log In Problems in 2.4

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 96 08:22:40 CDT

I am running v2.4 with almost all of my users as "guests".  I have two 
     users who cannot log into the FTP server.  They are greeted with a 
     
     530 User XXXXXXX access denied
     
     I've had other users log in as themselves from the denied user's 
     machine.  I have logged in as both of these "denied" users using three 
     different routes (and 3 different IP addresses).
     
     So:  You can't log in as a specific user from a specific machine.
          Other people can log in from that specific machine.
          You can log in as the specific user from another machine.
     
     Can anyone out there provide some direction to help me track this 
     down?  My solution has been to create a different user with a 
     different username, password, userID; but the same login directory.
     
     Thanks,
     Mark Flanagan
     [email-masked]

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From: Andy Ellsworth <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 09:55:44 -0500 (CDT)

>      530 User XXXXXXX access denied

Just a guess, but you might make sure that all of your users' shells are 
listed in /etc/shells (i.e. if one or more of them are using tcsh, and 
tcsh isn't in /etc/shells, then it won't let them in).  It's a fairly 
common problem.

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