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From the ftpd man page: So for an account named "ftp" to work, you must set up anonymous ftp. You cannot treat "ftp" as another user. The man page mentions:

ftp:*:500:10:anonymous ftp:/home/ftp:/usr/bin/false

You must:
set the password field to *
ensure that the group is a guest group
change the shell is a good idea but if /usr/bin/false is not in /etc/shells you must add it

thank you. I will try this first thing tomorrow.

OK.
I have tried this again. If I use ftp command and the ftp user - it is signing on - but it isn't changing dir (chroot) to /home/ftp -- it is dropping the session in / (root) and once there you cannot cd /home/ftp - it says it is not found.
if I signon the system with user id ftp - it works and leaves me in /home/ftp and I can write to that directory.

I have tried this again. the "user" ftp can sign on and gets to the /home/ftp directory, but cannot put to it.
here is the session:
Here is the directory permissions:
I'm stuck. Any ideas?

Lisa

My guess would be the ftpaccess file. Were you running wuftpd on the old box? If so, maybe you could just copy ftpaccess over.

there is no ftpaccess file in /etc/ftpd on either server.

how do I know if I was running wuftpd or not?

Notice that you posted the following text: Do you see the string "wuftpd"? Yes it's possible to write another ftpd that claims to be wuftpd but behaves very differently, but I have never heard of that being done. If a server claims to be wuftpd, we assume that it is. Does your old server make that claim? Also, what os was on the previous box?

When you sign on the new server with ftp, does the command "dir" work? Does "dir" work on the old server?

If they are both wuftpd servers, are they being started with the same options? Typically they would be started via a line in /etc/inetd.conf so compare the entries in that file.