Many thanks to Eddie Chen. Eddie called me, and gave me more explicit info on where to look, and what to look for (I'm a fairly new admin). The failing id, oracle, was in the ftpusers do not log list.
It now works. Thanks, Dave Dave Stuart Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst County of Ventura, CA 805-662-6731 david.stu...@ventura.org>>> "Eddie Chen" <ec...@nyx.com> 2/18/2011 6:16 AM >>> Take a look at your vsftp config on userlist setting ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Ver [mailto:mark...@us.ibm.com] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 06:45 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> Subject: Re: FTP Security Issue Are the users able to successfully login (ssh, telnet) to the system? Does ftp login work for a user local on the ftp server (like if they got on to the machine console and did "ftp 127.0.0.1" using their id they actually succeed)? Cause if it does, it sounds like something on the network is causing the problem ... like a firewall authentication, bad host to ip translation, etc. There are some threads on web reporting similar network based issues. If it doesn't work even for local connections, it's likely some configuration on the system, like a non-existent login shell program, local firewall setting or something. - Mark Ver office: Building 710 / Room 2-RF-10 phone: (845) 435-7794 [tie 8 295-7794] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ Please consider the environment before printing this email. Visit our website at http://www.nyse.com **************************************************** Note: The information contained in this message and any attachment to it is privileged, confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to the message, and please delete it from your system. Thank you. NYSE Euronext. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/