[lug] FTP ERRORS??

[Hugh Brown]

this sounds more like a permission problem.  any time root can do
something and regular users can't, go looking for permissions first.


I would look in an /etc/hosts.allow or /etc/hosts.deny or at ipchains or at
the config for the ftp server




"Shannon Johnston"
> 
> Allow me to offer a little more insight into the problem, as things just
> got a whole lot stranger.
> 
> The system this is happening on is a Cobalt Raq3. (It's also happening on
> a Raq4 as well. Feel free to flame me all you want for using them.)
> 
> The newest security patches have been applied.
> 
> There is an 'admin' user that has the same passwd as root. This user has
> the ability to log in successfully and keep the connection.
> 
> Regular users can login from certain network addresses and not from
> others. The only two differences being that the space they can't login
> from is publically routable, the other is not. (i.e. 10.1.1.0/32)
> 
> The admin user is able to log in from the same ip space that the regular
> users can't log in from.
> 
> The proper commands do exist in the chroot environment.
> 
> I'll have to check into the data port communication.
> 
> This is all very confusing to me. I've never had this happen before.
> 
> 
> Shannon J.