Re: /etc/shells and /etc/ftponly no longer work after patching wuftpd 2.6.2

Preet,

what is the shell for the pdhillon account?  is it /etc/ftponly? or
something else.  What ever it is, make sure it is part of the /etc/shells
file
ted keller


On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Preet Dhillon wrote:

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> Dear All,
>
> I configured my wuftp to restrict interactive shell access following the
> procedures described in
> http://www.landfield.com/wu-ftpd/ftponly/ftponly.html
>
> I began by creating the file /etc/ftponly :
>
> # cat /etc/ftponly
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # DO NOT DELETE
> #
> echo "FTP ONLY"
> exit 0
> #
>
> And set the permissions correctly :
>
> # ls -l /etc/ftponly
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     other         53 Mar  2 16:27 /etc/ftponly
>
> Then created the file /etc/shells :
>
> # cat /etc/shells
> /etc/ftponly
>
> # ls -l /etc/shells
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other         13 Apr 28 16:44 /etc/shells
>
> And this was working fine. I could ftp to the server but not telnet to
> it. All well so far.
>
> I then installed the following patches as mentioned on the wuftp site
> http://www.wu-ftpd.org/ :
>
> Realpath.patch
> Connect-dos.patch and
> Skeychallenge.patch
>
> Then re-ran the ./configure, make and make install to recompile wuftpd.
>
> However, when I try to log in to the new wuftpd, I see the following
> error :
>
> # ftp localhost
> Connected to localhost.
> 220 localhost FTP server (Version wu-2.6.2(2) Thu Apr 28 16:31:45 BST
> 2005) ready.
> Name (gate:pdhillon):
> 331 Password required for pdhillon.
> Password:
> 530 Login incorrect.
> Login failed.
> ftp> quit
>
> If I delete the /etc/shells file, then the above ftp works correctly. It
> appears therefore that my /etc/ftponly and /etc/shells is not working on
> the newly patched version of wuftpd. It was working fine before I
> patched and recompiled it.
>
> Has anyone seen this before or have anything to suggest to resolve it?
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Preet
>
>
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