> 
> After having compiled and installed a current system (probably also
> some etc files :-/ ) I can not figure out why ftpd does not
> accept local users of the system anymore?

Did you check /etc/shells for legal shells and do your local users
perhaps have a shell that is not in /etc/shells?

> 
> There is no file "nologin" and "ftpusers" is like this:
>  #       $NetBSD: ftpusers,v 1.2 1996/05/08 17:19:34 thorpej Exp $
>  #
>  # list of users disallowed any ftp access.
>  # read by ftpd(8).
>  root
>  uucp
> 
> Maybe there is something with the terminal configurtion that
> blocks me from hacking in correct user names and/or passwords but
> I dont know how to test about this. I am suspicious about this
> because if I remotely give in a user say 'fsr' and look locally via ps -xa 
> what happens I see:
> 436 ?? S 0:00.37 ftpd: inf.tud.de: connected: USER fsr\r\n (ftpd)
> 
> Is "\r\n" o.k.?
> 
> Thanks for some ideas and
>  
>         Bye   Brusi
> 
>             by           ab2@inf.tu-dresden.de
> 
>           \____/
> 
> 
> 

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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de