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Re: [ts-7000] ftpd (to Eddie indirectly) - cannot login as root

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] ftpd (to Eddie indirectly) - cannot login as root
From: Joe Bouchard <>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 18:57:41 -0400
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:02:11PM +0200, Christopher Friedt wrote:
> Hi Eddie,
> 
> I saw your posting to the list way back when about troll-ftpd, the ftpd, 
> included on the default TS filesystem.
> 
> I just built it myself, but for some reason I can't log in as root. I
> keep getting '530 Sorry' in the telnet session on the client side when I 
> try to enter the proper password.

There is a reason for this.  It's considered good security policy to disable
telnet, ssh, or ftp login as root, especially if you are transmitting the
password in clear text. Typically you need to login as yourself and then su, or
in the case of ftp, put/get as yourself and copy things around as root.

Some ftpd's may allow you to bypass this in the .conf file, and this may be
an option here, don't know.  Make sure you really need to be able to do this.

Joe


 
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