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SUMMARY: anonymous FTP problem



Many thanks to all who responded with numerous suggestions.

Suggestions were in the range of checking the /etc/passwd entry is OK,
/etc/shells, /etc/ftp*, /var/log/messages, anonftp is installed, and
checking the permissions of /var/ftp.

I can't for the life of me work out why, but my home directory was
specified incorrectly (/ftp instead of /h/ftp), so either this has been
like this for a long time without anyone noticing, or something has
happened in the last day or so.

Many thanks again,

Mark


Original message:-
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm having trouble with anonymous FTP on my FTP server :-
>
> [maccy maccy]$ ftp ftp.star.le.ac.uk
> Connected to morpheus.star.le.ac.uk.
> 220 morpheus.star.le.ac.uk FTP server (Version wu-2.6.1-16.7x.1) ready.
> Name (ftp.star.le.ac.uk:maccy): anonymous
> 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
> Password:
> 530 Can't set guest privileges.
> Login failed.
> ftp>
>
> The shell that I use for guest users appears in my /etc/shells. Nothing
> has changed as far as I know on this machine and all the permissions are
> fine. I have explored various HOWTOs and googled.
>
> I'm not sure how long the server has been like this but probably not too
> long as I've only received one complaint so far (today).
>
> I look forward to hopefully hearing your suggestions!
>
> Mark
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