From: fset@guug.de (Test Account Fachschaft E-Technik) Subject: Re: Can't FTP from remote machine Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1993 12:15:42 GMT
fset@guug.de (Test Account Fachschaft E-Technik) writes:
>When i ftp to my local linux machine, everything works fine. But if i try
>the same ftp procedure from a remote machine, ftp refuses connection
>(530...) before i'm asked for a password. Telnet works fine. I think that
>i haven't changed anything from prior installations(99pl4 i think), which
>functioned ok.
Sorry to answer my own article, but i solved the problem. ftpd can't handle
a symbolic link as login shell. after setting the login shell to the
physical file, everything works ok.
>Clemens Huebner
>fset guug.de (I think i must work on that keyboard setting, I can't find
>the 'at'-sign)