According to dave: While burning my CPU.
>
> Hi all ... I just put slackware 3.6 from sunsite on my Toshiba laptop, and
> got X mostly working. I wanted to install Window Maker, so I downloaded it
> on my win98 box, and was going to ftp it over to the laptop across the
> network. I couldn't upload, though ...
>
> <anonymous login here>
> 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
> ftp> ls
> 200 PORT command successful.
> 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
> etc
> pub
> usr
> bin
> lib
> incoming
> welcome.msg
> 226 Transfer complete.
> ftp: 48 bytes received in 0.05Seconds 0.96Kbytes/sec.
> ftp> send
> Local file c:\bin\WindowMaker-0_20_3_tar.tar
> Remote file <didn't matter what I put here>
> 200 PORT command successful.
> 553 WindowMaker-0_20_3_tar.tar: Permission denied. (Upload)
> ftp>
Try cd upload
put <filename>
The only place forigen hosts can upload (or should be able to upload to) is
/home/ftp/pub/upload or /home/ftp/incoming
>
> So I tried to just make a new user back on the Linux box, maybe one with
> superuser privileges <and here's the main problem> ... using adduser ... and
> all was well until I hit the final ENTER, where I got
>
> "Making new account...
> useradd: unable to lock password file
Now i have forgotten what the file is called, but this error is normaly
produced when there is a file in /etc locking the passwd file, i think its
called .passwd.lck i just cant remember.
Its a strange thing to say considering i cant even tell you what the dam
file is called, but after deleting that file all should work.
Try ftp'ing in the "upload" directory first, that should work..
>
> chfn: Unknown user <my user name>
>
> passwd: Unknown user <same username here>
> Done..."
>
> SO - first, why can't I upload to my linux box from my 98 box across the
> network - since it looks like the /etc/ftpaccess file says most anyone can
> get in, and second, what's with this 'lock password file' thing? I'm pretty
> new at Linux, and glad to get this far, but I'm bamboozled at this point.
>
> thanks in advance!
>
> dave w
>
>
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Regards Richard.
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