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Subject: Re: HELP NEEDED: one time password with chroot ftp?
From: "Donald R. Guillot" <dguill @ communique . net>
Organization: Guillot Systems
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 02:52:12 -0600
To: Cynthia He <cxh @ mba . com>
Cc: Firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
References: <1 . 5 . 4 . 32 . 19970130222909 . 0030742c @ mbagate2 . mba . com>

Cynthia He wrote:
> 
> Hi, all,
> 
> I am trying to set up a chroot ftp area for our clients. We also have a
> requirement that users have to use one time passwords to login. I am using
> TIS fwtk.
> 
> What I have in netperm-table is something like this:
> 
>   netacl-ftpd: permit-hosts * -chroot /ftp/others/ -exec /usr/bin/ftpd -d
> 
> When a user tries to login, he gets the following error:
> 
>   530 Cannot connect to auth server
>   ftp: Login failed.
>   Remote system type is UNIX.
> 
> It seems that the chroot happens before the user gets authenticated and
> hence has no access to the authsrv database. Is there a way to get around this?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Cynthia

Cynthia,

It looks like you are just not connecting the authsrv module....
Make sure their is a definition for the location of the database
eg. authsrv:        database        /usr/local/etc/authdb

This should solve your problem..

Happy authing. (:}}

Donald R. Guillot


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