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From: greg@trefoil.bogs.org (Greg Shenaut)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Need help with ftpd
Date: 19 Jan 1997 03:40:19 GMT
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Claude Pio (pio@interlog.com) wrote:
: I am in a real bind. I am running BSDI and have been for a while. Last
: week the system was broken into and some files were deleted. I have been
: able to recover most of them so far. The problem that I cannot seem to
: solve is that since then when a user tries to ftp into the system the
: ftp server rejects him before he even inputs his password, and ftpd
: logges the message "FTP LOGIN REFUSED (bad shell) FROM .....". 
: It looks like there is a missing shell on the system, I have not been
: able to find it.
: Any help would be appreciated....

Make sure /etc/shells matches the entries in /etc/passwd

-Greg