FTP Problem

[SSP_1]

Hi Experts,

I am getting a problem while doing ftp to a HP N-Class server. OS is hpux11.00. It's giving an error "login failed" when trying to log in with my user id. I checked /etc/ftpusers , it's blank and also there is no file called shells in /etc directory. Does anyone have a idea ?

[Stefan Farrelly · Accepted solution]

remove /etc/ftpusers seeing as its empty, if its blank I think it stops everyone.

We dont have /etc/ftpusers or /etc/shells on our servers and ftp works fine.

[Christos Magdalinos]

Hi

try to change your ftpd invocation on /etc/inetd.conf to ftpd -v -l to increase log level ..
See if you get some sort of problem description on the syslog

[T G Manikandan]

check /etc/shells exist and the user shells are defined there.

[V. V. Ravi Kumar_1]

hi,
as suggested rename /etc/ftpusers file. also check the shell for that user in /etc/passwd, if it is other than standard shell like "false", /etc/shells file should exist with the false shell as an entry in that along with other shells.

Regards

[Todd Whitcher]

Hi,

Check the entry for ftpd in /etc/inetd.conf does it have the -a option? If so you might have /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess file restrictions set up. Check for /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess file if it exists verify you are not denied access..see man ftpaccess(4) for details. You can also remove the -a in /etc/inetd.conf and re-read the inetd.conf config w/ inetd -c.

[radi_1]

Hi,
Iam not sure if this would work,but I once was faced with this problem,
try to ftp as root,if loged in ,then edit /etc/passwd and make the user's login shell simmilar to root's.
Regards.