Re: WU-FTPD lists UIDs and GIDs as numbers

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:58:46AM -0800, Thomas Bentz wrote:
> 
> I've copied the libraries needed for ~ftp/bin/ls to work. But it lists the
> UIDs and GIDs as numbers.

Did you put dummy (ie. with asterisks in the password field) passwd and group
files under the chroot directory, so that ls could access them to map between
the numbers and the names ?

Cheers, Bob

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> I've also compiled ls to be static:
> # ldd ./ls
> not a dynamic executable
> When this static ls is used by WU-FTPD it doesn't even list files or
> directories.
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> The only way I can get this to work is to copy the entire /lib directory to
> ~~ftp/lib and use the dynamic ls version. But that is 50 megs of library
> files just to use WU-FTP.
> ----
> What am I doing wrong?!?!?!
> Please help!!
> Thanks

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Bob Luckin      [email protected]      "Coder, adapt; FTP Ada, redo C"