NIS and NcFTPd

2002-11-12 Thread Luke Brown
Hi, Anyone had problems with trying to get ncftpd to read passwords from a client on a nis domain? If i setup a test user locally it works great however if i try and login to a nis domain user's account i get password failures. -- Luke Brown Computer Support Officer Center for Water Res

ncftpd and RedHat 7.1?

2001-04-22 Thread John Aldrich
Anyone successfully gotten NCFTPD running on RedHat 7.1? It *seems* to work just fine, but also apparently gets shut down almost as soon as it starts when it's started automatically And it's NOT just going into "standby" mode because I'm unable to connect when I

Re: NCFTPD (solved)

2001-03-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, you wrote: > > It is, unless you've used ftp servers forever. It's mostly a historic > thing. > This is why it's deprecated in the current version. You should use > deny-uid and deny-gid (in wu-ftpd's ftpaccess file) instead. > Ahh... Ok. Well, this is just a personal machin

Re: NCFTPD (solved)

2001-03-28 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, John Aldrich wrote: > Ok. I have to thank Bero for pointing out what I shoulda cought myself. :-) It > turns out to be a problem of mis-reading the docs. If you DON'T want someone to > be able to log in via FTP put 'em in the "ftpusers" file. :-) This seems > COMPLETELY count

Re: NCFTPD (solved)

2001-03-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, you wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, you wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, John Aldrich wrote: > > > > > You mean like /bin/bash or /bin/false? ;-) Yeppers. Per the docs, I > > > double-checked that when I was installing. Like I said... I *did* RTFM while > > > installing, but not

Re: NCFTPD

2001-03-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, you wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, John Aldrich wrote: > > > You mean like /bin/bash or /bin/false? ;-) Yeppers. Per the docs, I > > double-checked that when I was installing. Like I said... I *did* RTFM while > > installing, but nothing there seems to apply. This *seems* to b

Re: NCFTPD

2001-03-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, you wrote: > > At least on wu-ftpd, ftpusers lists users who may *not* ftp to the > system... > If you've added everyone to ftpusers, that's why they can't login. > Ahh... Ok. The docs seemed to indicate the opposite. John _

NCFTPD

2001-03-28 Thread Remo Mattei
I'm trying to upgrade a RedHat 6.2 machine to use NCFTPD (home / personal box) so I can transfer files between my Window$ machine and my linux box. I'm having problems with wu-ftpd, and a much more clueful friend of mine suggested that ncftpd might solve the problem, so I downloade

Re: NCFTPD

2001-03-28 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, John Aldrich wrote: > You mean like /bin/bash or /bin/false? ;-) Yeppers. Per the docs, I > double-checked that when I was installing. Like I said... I *did* RTFM while > installing, but nothing there seems to apply. This *seems* to be a problem with > verifying the password.

Re: NCFTPD

2001-03-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, you wrote: > Does /etc/shells contain the complete paths of the default shells for > the users that are failing? > You mean like /bin/bash or /bin/false? ;-) Yeppers. Per the docs, I double-checked that when I was installing. Like I said... I *did* RTFM while installing, but

Re: NCFTPD

2001-03-28 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- John Aldrich wrote: >I'm trying to upgrade a RedHat 6.2 machine to use NCFTPD (home / personal box) >so I can transfer files between my Window$ machine and my linux box. I'm having >problems with wu-ftpd, and a much more clueful friend of

NCFTPD

2001-03-28 Thread John Aldrich
I'm trying to upgrade a RedHat 6.2 machine to use NCFTPD (home / personal box) so I can transfer files between my Window$ machine and my linux box. I'm having problems with wu-ftpd, and a much more clueful friend of mine suggested that ncftpd might solve the problem, so I downloaded it