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Re: FTPD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Jul 5 04:22:12 1997
To: mkhusid@MIT.EDU (Michael Khusid )
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Jul 1997 21:25:22."
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Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 04:22:02 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
root is specifically prohibited to ftp to your machine because it's in
the default /etc/ftpusers file. Other accounts don't work because
ftpd doesn't know about Kerberos passwords.
You probably want to create a local account to ftp with. Read "man 8
adduser" to see how to do that. (There's no adduser command, but the
man page describes what you have to do.)
Note that ftpd is insecure; passwords you type in will go over the net
in the clear, where people might be able to intercept them. Using
Kerberized rcp would be more secure.
