On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:25:50AM +0200, Alex Sorg wrote:
> Even if there is only one line saying
>    * allow
> in ftpusers it doesn't work. But it works for root!
> 
> Another thing is, that ftpd doesn't log to syslog, though inetd gives
> it the "-l" switch.
> 
> I think, there's some misconfiguration due to the upgrade I made.
> Maybe some files from the older version (1.5) were left, or there's a
> problem with file access rights.
> 

Make sure the user 'alex' has a shell that appears in /etc/shells.  I've
been bitten by this before.
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Jeff Rizzo                                         http://boogers.sf.ca.us/~riz