Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <20050202160150.90634.qmail@web26609.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:01:50 +0100 (CET) From: le chapelain germain Subject: Re: problem with proftpd To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:32:24AM +0100, le chapelain germain wrote: > > germ (localhost[127.0.0.1]) - no such user 'ftp' > > Note the above. > > > [snip] > > > > What is the problem ? > > Did you forget to update your /etc/passwd with mkpasswd? What does the > following indicate? > > $ fgrep ftp /etc/passwd > ftp:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1025:545:anonymous ftp,... Thx it was the problem. But I also had to remove "ftp" from /etc/ftpusers (but not anonymous) and change the permission on /home/ftp to 755. Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail : 250 Mo d'espace de stockage pour vos mails ! Créez votre Yahoo! Mail sur http://fr.mail.yahoo.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/