SUMMARY: use ftp with tcsh

Douglas Chen (dougc@lsi.sel.sony.com)
Thu, 03 Apr 1997 14:02:42 -0800

Hello,

I have to say this group is great. I got the right answer less than 2 hrs. It's
faster than some experiences I had with Sun Services.

Original Question:

One of the users in the group tried to use ftp, and got
>
> john@gazelle 21- ftp gazelle
> Connected to gazelle.
> 220 gazelle FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready.
> Name (gazelle:root): john
> 530 User john access denied.
> Login failed.
> ftp>
>
> while the others don't have the problem. I noticed the difference is that user
> use "tcsh" as his login shell and the others use "csh".
>
> Is there any way to make ftp work without changeing the login shell?

Answer:

Make sure the shell (tcsh) is included in /etc/shells

EX.
/bin/sh
/bin/ksh
/bin/csh
/bin/tcsh

Thanks to:

Mark A. Baldwin
daves@gemini.adnc.com
TThompson@mail.ci.lubbock.tx.us
mattias@txc.com
chaggard@fedex.com
atreya@library.ucsf.edu
ISKANDER@infimed.com
putama@ect.enron.com
bshaw@bobasun.spdc.ti.com
johnb@Soliton.COM
dbaker@hobbes.cuckoo.com
cbar44@mozart.tsg.cbot.com
ric@rtd.com
foster@bial1.ucsd.edu
ras@loveland.ramtron.com
zhou@mathworks.com
gpr@agile.com
nitkin@ptdcs2.intel.com
fpardo@tisny.com
swelch@home.net
djohnson@nbserv2.dseg.ti.com

Douglas

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