Solaris

Hello,

Can someone help me in getting a passwordless FTP conncetion ?

It works if I do it as myself, but I need to be user1 when I do it, not myself. When I do it as user1, it asks for user1 password, which we don't have. All in all, ftp myserver.com works on all other servers when I'm user1 (when I run sudo su - user1 prior to ftp command), and it used to work on this server too. I want to make it work on my server now since it is not working.

In short, it should not ask for password.

Do you actually mean FTP, or sftp or the like?

For FTP, check your user's ~/.netrc file.

Now my concern is that I don't actually have a password set for user1.

I have created a .netrc file in user1's home directory as below

user1> ls -la .netrc

-rw------- 1 user1 other 28 Nov 16 03:53 .netrc

user1> cat .netrc
machine hacks1
login user1

I have not set any password for user1 to login so in my view nothing is required as password field in .netrc file.

But still it is asking for password. When I press enter it says login incorrect.

If you haven't set any password, that generally makes login impossible, not passwordless.

I have a similar thing on other 2 servers and it is working fine.

The password is not set for user1 and when I do ftp it just logs in without asking for password. Strangely I couldn't find ant .netrc file in my user's home directory in other 2 servers.

I hope it makes sense. I would really appriciate if you could help me with this asap !

The .netrc belongs on the originating server, not the destination one, if that's being confused.

It may also be something that got configured with hosts.allow/hosts.deny

If this is really an emergency, there is the emergency forum for emergencies, which you didn't use.