Re: FTP USER ACCESS DENIED

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From: Jeremy DuBois
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1992 15:51

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In <1992Mar18.084244.14427@dxcern.cern.ch> khoda@ptsun02.cern.ch (Arash Khodabandeh) writes:

>On a small net of SUNs, when we try to ftp to one of them we get the 
>"user access denied" message:

>> ftp ptsun01
>Connected to ptsun01.
>220 ptsun01 FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready.
>Name (ptsun01:khoda): khoda
>530 User khoda access denied.
>Login failed.
>ftp>

  I remember having this problem, and feeling really stupid for not reading
the man page thoroughly when I found the answer.  The problem was that
user's shell was not in the /etc/shells file, and ftp won't allow that.

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