Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] (William Lupton) · Mon, 26 Jul 1999 08:58:54 -1000

...may not be related, but there is a problem with tcsh and some ftp servers;
the ftp server checks the shell and if it's not in a list of known ones it
rejects the incoming call; here's an excerpt from an (admittedly old) tcsh
FAQ:

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5.  I just made tcsh my login shell, and I cannot ftp any more?

    Newer versions of the ftp daemon check for the validity of the
    user's shell before they allow logins. The list of valid login
    shells is either hardcoded or it is usually in a file called
    /etc/shells. If it is hard-coded, then you are out of luck and
    your best bet is to get a newer version of ftpd. Otherwise add
    tcsh to the list of shells. [For AIX this file is called
    /etc/security/login.cfg]. Remember that the full path is required.
    If there is no /etc/shells, and you are creating one, remember to
    add /bin/csh, /bin/sh, and any other valid shells for your system,
    so that other people can ftp too :-)
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William

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System