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Re: FTPD problem


On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:12:20AM +0000, GRI wrote:
> 
> 
> I have installed inetutils-1.3.2-14 to my PC (running windows 2000
> Profesional) and followed the readme file to set up and start the
> inetd as administrator.
> 
> After adding a user with the needed rights,  i need to regenerate
> /etc/passwd:
> 
>         $ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
> 
> When I start a ftp session to my localhost the ftpd respond me that
> login is incorrect.
> 
> Is there anything special I should do with my /etc/paswd ?

Try restarting the inetd service.

> at present it looks as follow:
> [...]
> prueba:s.lWJG8DGDNwY:1006:513:prueba,S-1-5-21-1060284298-113007714-2146651539-1006:/home/prueba:/bin/bash

The password given in that entry is never used on NT/W2K. On NT/W2K
only the Windows passwords are used for logon. Try using the Windows
password given when you've created that user.

Corinna

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