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- From: tinsel@uiuc.edu (Thomas Aaron Insel)
- Subject: Re: TCSH and FTP
- References: <vszndtl@lynx.unm.edu>
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- Organization: Illini Mastication Society
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 17:54:42 GMT
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- Naseer Khan <khan@us17501.mdc.com> writes:
-
- > A while back, just as I was starting to learn about TCSH, someone was
- > discussing the effects of changing one's default login shell and how
- > FTP daemon reacted to this. I think the important point was that we
- > had to let it know about the new shell (and also about the old ones)
- > in a config file of sorts. Could that someone or anyone who can help
- > please tell me how to do this exactly. I didn't realize at the time
- > that this would affect me, but now that I have gotten TCSH (6.02) and
- > have it as my login shell, FTP won't let me in from outside 'cause it
- > doesn't know my shell. Thanks in advance. :)
-
- If, by some method, you change your shell to a program not listed in
- the file /etc/shells, ftpd won't let you connect. Most systems won't
- let you set your shell to one that isn't listed, but evidently you
- managed.
- --
- Thomas Aaron Insel (tinsel@uiuc.edu)
- "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty." -- Edward R. Murrow
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