From: bob@amscons.amscons.com (Bob Amstadt) Subject: Re: net-0.2 stuff (and presumebly SLS net stuff) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 11:28:44 GMT
NOTE: All of the questions you have asked have been answered at one
time or another.
sadkins@bigbird.cs.ohiou.edu (Scott W. Adkins) writes:
: 2) ftp works find going out of the linux box, but using ftp into the box
: does not work:
: a) ftp using "anonymous" or "ftp" --> I can get in using this method,
: but any ftp command I use brings up a message something to the
: effect "Could not load "/lib/libc.so.4" and "Permision Denied".
: I checked this out and do not see why either message is coming
: up... /lib/libc.so.4 is sym linked to /lib/libc.so.4.2 and the
: /lib/libc.so.4.2 has 755 permissions set on it.
ftp changes its root directory to /home/ftp. Therefore any program
you want to use must be in /home/ftp/bin and every library must be
in /home/ftp/lib. Soft links will not work because your root directory
will actually be /home/ftp.
: b) ftp using any other account name that exists does not work...
: it will ask me for a login, I type it in. It asks me for a
: password, and I type it in (and it *is* correct!). It will
: say "Login incorrect" and then "Login failed". I thought it
: would be a problem with shadow passwords, but it turns out
: that this may not be the case... so what gives?
Most of us use shadow passwords, but ftp does not. I have been able to
ftp by manually placing the encrypted password into /etc/passwd. I do
not recommend this method because of security reasons, but it does
show that the problem is the lack of shadow password support in ftp.
: 3) I haven't tried out rcp and some of the other exotic command, but I
: seem to recall that rsh works fine and telnet seems to do pretty good.
rsh and telnet both function correctly.
: Ok, now... I am currently using SLS 99p3 (yes it is old, but I am *still*
: waiting for SLS to "settle" down and waiting for the next big update). I
: have heard that the problem still existed in 99p4 (from other people) and
: that it was even worse in the p4 verson... so I have chosen to stick with
: p3 for the time being. I am hoping that 99p5 will help? Is this a problem
: with the kernel not setting or clearing and interupt flag or something???
: I really hope somebody has a clue...
PLEASE upgrade your kernel. You don't need to wait for SLS. Install
the kernel patches. MUCH has been done to the networking code. If you
follow the linux-activists NET channel, you will see that there is much
activity in trying to get the networking stable. There are big differences
between pl3 and pl5. I have seen much better behavior from pl5 than
any other release.
-- Bob Amstadt bob@amscons.com