Re: root access via FTP
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:58:59PM +0100, JP Glutting wrote:
> The ftp server is wu-ftpd. I am using the OS X ftp client.
>
> i ran debsums, and noticed that my /etc/login.defs file does not match.
>
> I have been seeing some odd things happening on my Mac, but I don't
> see how this could be a client behavior.
I'm 99% sure that it is the client. Try running ethereal if you like;
the ftp server certainly is not saying "220 Please log in as root".
> the prompt when I use ftp is Name (sargebox:root)
>
> I just tried it again, and it game me the proper login. But I did try
> it three times and got the wrong one. I could not be accidentally
Proper means "sargebox:username" and wrong means "sargebox:root"?
> logged in as "root" on the Mac, because I have root disabled.
What is your userid? If its 0, that would explain it.
Justin
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:07:37 -0500, Justin Pryzby
> <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > I just reread your subject. You're "offered" a root ftp login? What
> > program?
> >
> > Justin
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 03:04:39PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 08:59:34PM +0100, JP Glutting wrote:
> > > > For some reason, when I log into Sarge, I am offered to login as root
> > > > by default. Up until today, I was offered to login with my username. I
> > > Offered? I take it you are using {k,g,x}dm?
> > >
> > > > am surprised by this, since I though root logins were turned off by
> > > > default.
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone else noticed this?
> > > I hadn't, but someone was complaing that they couldn't log into root
> > > from kdm, so I, too, am surprised.
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