ftp user issues

[Tim Judd]

On 6/18/09, Chris Maness <chris at chrismaness.com> wrote:
> I just upgraded to 7.2, and I am no longer able to log in via ftp with
> my user name.  Other accounts are ok on the server.  I checked the
> ftpusers file and my name is not on the list.
>
> Chris Maness

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ftp.html

ftpusers file is used to prevent logins.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ftpd&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE&format=html

is your user's shell (i.e: bash) in /etc/shells ?

FreeBSD's stock ftpd requires the user's shell to be in /etc/shells in
order to login.  See
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getusershell&sektion=3&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE



Documentation is great.  RTFM