Not sure about woody since I'm not running it, but one thing to check is whether the proftpd.conf fine contains the PersistentPassword directive. It needs to be set to off to recognize NIS accounts.
Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:37:55 +0000 > From: Pedro I. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Subject: ProFTPd and NIS problems in Woody > > Hello, > > ProFTPd doesn't recognize NIS accounts and says "(Login failed): Can't > find user" in the log file. It works fine with local (non NIS) accounts. > This has been reported as bug #62197 which is over 90 days old already. > Does anyone know of a workaround (other than scraping ProFTpd which is > what I am about to do)? > > Thank you, > > -- > Pedro >
