From: mccauleyba@vms1.bham.ac.uk (Brian McCauley) Subject: Re: Cannot get local ftp to work Date: 28 Jul 1993 13:15:38 GMT
In article <2349r1$fu@hebron.connected.com>, baron@hebron.connected.com (Joe Portman) writes:
> What I cannot do is 'ftp' to localhost as anything but 'anonymous'.
> When I try to login with a normal username/password, I always get
> "password required for user XXX,
> login incorrect,
Your system using shadow passwords, your ftpd is not.
For a quick fix just copy password filed form /etc/shadow to /etc/passwd.
For a better fix get an ftpd that uses shadow passwords (I don't know
where to get on of these) but it can't be all that hard.
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