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Re: ftpd bug? Was: bin/1805: Bug in ftpd

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Dills)
Wed Oct 16 21:16:49 1996

Date: 	Wed, 16 Oct 1996 14:11:02 -0400
Reply-To: Andrew Dills <dills@husc.harvard.edu>
From: Andrew Dills <dills@husc.harvard.edu>
X-To:         gamble@dxcoms.CERN.CH
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
In-Reply-To:  <9610160804.AA26065@dxcoms.cern.ch>

On Wed, 16 Oct 1996 gamble@dxcoms.cern.ch wrote:

> Doesn't work for me ... SunOS 4.1.1
>
> SOMEWHERE>ftp sunos
> 220 sunos FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready.
> Connected to sunos.xxx.xx.
> Name (sunos:smith):
> 331 Password required for smith.
> Password:
> 230 User smith logged in.
> FTP> cd /tmp
> 250 CWD command successful.
> FTP> user root fred
> 530 User root access denied.
> %FTP-E-LOGREJ, Login request rejected
> FTP> quote pasv
> 421 Service not available, Remote server has closed the connection
> SOMEWHERE>
>
> and no core in /tmp

Do you have core dumps turned off?

I forget where it is in 4.1.1, but under Solaris you can a line in
/etc/system to set coredump size.

Set it to 0, and you can avoid these problems.

Andy

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