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RE: Can't login to proftpd unless shell is running.
- From: "Paul Fournier" <mono at kog dot ca>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 23:02:24 -0500
- Subject: RE: Can't login to proftpd unless shell is running.
It seems I must be asking the wrong question here :). Is it possible that my
problem may be resolved by running proftpd through xinetd? Please let me
know if I should be addressing this question somewhere else.
Thank you
>I have this very strange problem.
>I am runing proftpd in standalone mode as a service registered with
>cugrunsrv. The service starts and runs fine when I reboot the system.
>However I have found that I cannot login to through ftp unless I am running
>a shell in cygwin. If the shell isn't runnning I get the following:
>
>Status: Connecting to localhost ...
>Status: Connected with localhost. Waiting for welcome message...
>Response: 220 ProFTPD 1.2.9 Server (ProFTPD Default Installation)
>[my_computer]Command: USER my_win_username
>Response: 331 Password required for my_win_username.
>Command: PASS *******
>Response: 530 Login incorrect.
>Error: Unable to connect!
>
>Now if I run cygwin then I can log in appropriately with now problems. I
>would like to be able to use proftpd without having a user logged on to the
>system at all. Any help woud be greatly appreciated.
>** I am using the default basic configuration file for proftpd
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