530 User guest may not use FTP.After much googling, a French website provided the answer: sharing-only users (=without their own home directory) have the shell /usr/bin/false. Users with this shell can only log on an FTP server if it is listed in /etc/shells (which it isn't).
2008-10-31
FTP for sharing files on Mac OS Leopard
I've decided to upgrade from sneakernet (=USB stick) to something more comfortable when sharing files with my brother, namely FTP. This is relatively easy to configure: Enable FTP sharing, create a new sharing-only user and designate a shared folder. But afterwards I kept getting an error:
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Yes it's good idea, but it's equal to create standart account with home folder. Only difference - is home folder of this users it's root folder ;) and users can wiew all root files in system
seems like the website http://www.ldml.com/services/support/macosx/ftpUserCreate.html could be of help
Thanks for the solution to my problem! Also, you should set the home folder of the 'ftp user' account to the default ftp directory.
Kept getting 530 error when I tried logging in to FTP with a services only account in 10.8 Server. 530 User ### may not use FTP. User name and password were correct. This solved my problem. Thanks!
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