FTP Security

From: Glenn B (glenn@ttw.com.au)
Date: 04/15/03 

From: "Glenn B" <glenn@ttw.com.au>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 22:59:42 -0700

Sorry, this was meant to be a reply to the topic below

About FTP Permission problem!!!

Glenn B

>-----Original Message-----
>I can't help in solving the problem, but I do have a
>similar problem, FTP server on a Windows 2000 Server.
>Users can't log into the FTP server. I have looked
>through some of the articles and have tried setting
>the "Log on Locally" policy for the users on the Server
>machine, and that did not solve the problem.
>
>If I put the user in the Administrator group, they can
>log on no problem. When I take them out of the
>Administrator group they can still log on ok. I haven't
>restarted the machine to check if this is persistent.
>
>When I look at the FTP log, the user who is able to
>connect (had been put in the admin group and then
>removed), has 2 entries:
>
>IP, username, date,....,[49]USER, username, -,
>IP, username, date,....,[49]PASS, -, -,
>
>looks fine. The user who cannot connect has this:
>
>IP, username, date,.....,[50]USER, username, -,
>IP, -, date,.....,[50]PASS, -, -,
>
>For some reason, the username is not being associated
>with sending the password. Auditing shows no signifcant
>differences between the two logins.
>
>Don't know if this helps in pinpointing the problem. I
>am continuing to look around for an answer.
>
>Thanks for any help
>
>Glenn B
>.
>

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