Re: ftp problem

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: Joachim Dulinski <http://www.mathA.rwth-aachen.de/~duli>
 > Date: Wed  Apr  1,  9:34am
 >
 > > 
 > > > From:         Joachim Dulinski <http://www.mathA.rwth-aachen.de/~duli>
 > > > Date:         1997/10/30
 > > > 
 > > > Salut!
 > > > 
 > > > Today suddenly ALL our Linux boxes refuse
 > > > ftp login to ALL user accounts from any other
 > > > machine. The message after typing in the
 > > > password is
 > > > 
 > > > Password:
 > > > 530 Login incorrect.
 > > > Login failed.
 > > > Remote system type is UNIX.
 > > > Using binary mode to transfer files.
 > > > ftp>
 > > > 
 > > > Anonymous ftp login is still working and ftp
 > > > login TO other machines is also fine. The
 > > > distribution we have installed is slackware-3.3.0.
 > > > Anyone got an idea what's wrong?
 > > > 
 > > > Thank's for all help,
 > > > Joachim
 > > 
 > > Hi.  I'm having the same problem.  Did you ever find a solution to this?
 > > 
 > > Thanks.
 > 
 > The problem was that I switched to shadow passwd. If you did the 
 > same, you have tell the ftpd about this. I did it the easy way: 
 > I just installed the parts I needed form the new version of Slackware, 
 > which we have on the server, since I knew that this new version already 
 > uses shadow passwords. 
 > 
 > Hope that helps, 
 > Joachim 

Yeah, I discovered the same problem.  In fact, all that appeared to be wrong
was that /etc/shadow was out of sync with passwd.  I had had no idea that
my system was doing shadow password-ing!  Now I know...