Does anyone has my experience of having problem for FTP with user root.
in other way when i want to ftp to other machine with root user it gives me "login faile ,password incorrect" (by the way that i've changed /etc/default/login file) .

I think it refers to our OS version (it's solaris 8 /Apr-01 ),cause just the machine that have this OS have this problem.

Rgrds,
nikk

P.S I've installed solaris 8 Patches also.

I would guess that either root is in /etc/ftpusers or that root has a shell not listed in /etc/shells.

Tanx in advance .
Rgrds,
nikk

If you have 'root' access to the machine that you want to ftp to, you can 'cat' the '/etc/ftpusers/ file on that machine and you should see the word 'root' in it.

Make a copy of the file somewhere then 'vi' the file and remove the line that says 'root'.

I'm not sure if the same rules apply on Solaris as AIX, but I found one noteworthy point from researching this on AIX.

Under the system administration menu (smitty), there is a parameter that can be set for the 'root' user. That parameter is : User can log in remotely? (true/false). If this parameter is set to false, I believe connection to the machine as root can't happen unless you're at the console.

Moderators, if I'm wrong, please let me know.