ftp client does not connect with bash as default

[yiannos]

Hi all,

I have installed bash shell through IBM's downloaded RPM file using SMItty. When I edit the passwd file and put bash as the root's default profile, I cannot connect to the system's ftp service from any client. When I turn it back to the original ksh, ftp services are back up and running.

Why is that so?

TIA

Yiannos

 

[bi]

This is connected to your other question about bash. If the shell isn't on the authorized list of shells in /etc/shells, the user can't ftp into the system. (Similarly, if a user's home directory doesn't exist, the user can't ftp into a system.)