ftp/sftp

[Rick Stevens]

karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
>>Did you also check the group permissions?  That may be blocking it.
>>You may also want to watch the logs (/var/log/xferlog and
>>/var/log/messages) to see if there's a clue there.
>>
>>90% of these problems are user or group privileges on either the
>>directories in question or their parents.
> 
> 
> I got this solved. /etc/ftphosts was bungled up. I removed all the
> entries, then added a couple in the correct format and things started to
> work right fine.

That was going to be my next search.  My initial guess was since you
played with UIDs was that they got munched somehow.

Glad you sorted it out.
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