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Re: [cobalt-users] ftpwho



On Friday 28 June 2002 12:19 pm, Mailing Lists wrote:
> on 6-28-02 10:14 AM, Glenn Cameron stated:
> > Since loading the latest package which updates ProFTPd I get no output
> > from ftpwho apart from if running as root, is this a "feature" we can
> > disable? Some quick searches in archives haven't turned anything up.
>
> Could this be why we are having odd errors with ftp logins not showing real
> usernames and site# but instead showing the numeric user and group i.e. 111
> / 112 instead of dthurman / site2??
>

For some reason the chrooted user can not read the passwd file, and therefore 
can not convert the numerals to names.

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