Tcsh/Ftp problem

[Douglas F. DeJulio]

rganesh at omicron.cs.fsu.edu (nu) writes:
> I switched to tcsh and ftp doesn't seem to work (ie ftp to a machine
> which has tcsh as your primary shell).

Some versions of FTP have a security feature that prevents people with
non-standard shells from using FTP.  This is so things like uucp
accounts and finger accounts can't ftp files.  Sometimes putting the
shell you're using into /etc/shells is enough to convince these FTPs
that your shell is standard, and things start working again.
-- 
Doug DeJulio
dd26 at andrew.cmu.edu