04-06-2011
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Originally Posted by
Perderabo
From the in.ftpd man page:
Read the man page for getusershell. You will probably need to create /etc/shells, populate it will the default list of shells and then add root's shell.
I don't think that you need /etc/shells. I commented out root user account in /etc/ftpd/ftpusers and login works. Currently file /etc/shells doesn't exist.
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