kills ftp somehow - themacgeek

You may need to remove your user(s) to the file /etc/ftpusers

also check the ftpd man page

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Tuesday, September 07 2004 @ 06:47 PM PDT

kills ftp somehow - GridsDad

Same happening with me.

I installed the update on Sep 8.

I FTP to the MAC every weekend. Today I get the message: "Login incorrect", " Login request rejected".

Stop/Start FTP, shutdown/restart system makes no difference.

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Sunday, September 12 2004 @ 01:50 PM PDT

kills ftp somehow - Billie Hawkins

Originally posted September 13th, 2004


Apple has released a revision to its 2004-09-07 Security Update, numbered 1.1, which reportedly fixes a widespread, previously reported FTP connectivity issue.


The problem, which disabled FTP capabilities for a number of users on both Mac OS X 10.2.8 and Mac OS X 10.3.5 systems, generated the the error message: "User (username) may not use FTP" in most instances.


A previously reported workaround involved replacing the patched version of Mac OS X's FTP daemon (ftpd) with the FTP daemon from another Mac OS X installation sans-security update.


Security Update 2004-09-07's changes to Mac OS X's FTP components are listed by Apple as follows: "(Eliminates) a rare condition that can permit an authenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. [...] If the FTP service has been enabled, and a remote attacker can correctly authenticate, then a race condition would permit them to stop the FTP service or execute arbitrary code. The fix is to replace the lukemftpd FTP service with tnftpd. lukemftp is installed but not activated in Mac OS X Server, which instead uses xftp [...]."


The revised version of Security Update 2004-09-07 is available either through Software Update.


Feedback on the new release? Late-breakers@macfixit.com.

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Wednesday, September 15 2004 @ 12:49 AM PDT