Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 04:14:08PM +0000, Don Sharp wrote:
> > I found the following message during a google search, but no resolution.
> > www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-05/msg01199.html
> > Today I stopped inetd, removed as service, reinstalled inetutils,
> > installed as service but am still seeing all the same things Gerrit
> > reported. Cygwin bang up to date with everything.
> >
> > Any joy making ftp work anyone?
>
> Yep. For months now. Did you check /etc/passwd and /etc/group?
> And the permissions? /etc and it's files readable?
Thanks Corinna. I had not remade my /etc/passwd and /etc/group after the
reinstall as I thought the original ones would do. Obviously not!
Remaking them with
mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
mkpasswd -l > /etc/group
allowed me ftp access. I removed the guest entry from passwd as per a
suggestion in the list (from Egor Duda I believe) to tighten the ftp
security.
Cheers
Don Sharp
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