SUMMARY: ftp w/ NIS running

From: Lewis Muhlenkamp (ljm@elcky.dlogics.com)
Date: Tue Aug 10 1993 - 20:35:10 CDT


Sorry to have wasted everyone's time, but I thought I cleared all bases.

Everyone who replied said to make sure the /etc/shells file is set up correctly.

It was the /etc/shells file. In my naivete when I set up the net boots I
thought it got the /etc/shells file correct because I could log into the
IPC, and when someone would do a 'w' they would get '-tcsh' as part of the
output. I also didn't think it was the /etc/shells file since the people
who brought this to my attention are running csh.

It turns out that the /etc/shells file did not exist! Thus I assume
getusershell(3) returned a NULL pointer since it got file not found, thus
causing ftp to give the error

     530 User ljm access denied.
     Login failed.

(Sorry for not including that originally)

This has been taken care of now. Thanks to everyone who responded.

Lewis Muhlenkamp (ljm@dlogics.com)

Thanks to the following for their help:
David Fetrow <fetrow@biostat.washington.edu>
Geert Jan de Groot <geertj@ica.philips.nl>
Robert Davies <rob@hasler.ascom.ch>
George D M Ross <gdmr@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
Eckhard Rueggeberg <eckhard@ts.go.dlr.de>
Nelson Fernandez <nelson.fernandez@att.com>
Chris Cleary <c23cjc@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com>
David T. Hightower <hightowr@utah.afwc.af.mil>
Jan v Doorn <jandoo@thijssen.nl>
Michael Harris <mharris@fsg.com>
Frank Peters <fwp@CC.MsState.Edu>



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