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[mircsicz]

Hi all,

yesterday I reflashed my ET9000, after restoring backups I tried to update my bouquet's with iDreamX. When uploading to the box I got the error "login failed", so I tried to connect with filezilla. When I connect to the box I get the following Error in the connection log:

500 OOPS: cannot locate user entry:vsftpd

I hope you can help, I'm still missing some new Sky channel's... ;-)

Greetz
Mircsicz

[MiLo]

I've only seen reports of that in combination with multiboot. Are you using multiboot?

[mircsicz]

Not as far as I know... i've only a single img to which I Boot!

[mircsicz]

Do you know where I have to add that missing entry?

[MiLo]

Maybe you restored an /etc/passwd file from a previous release. Don't do that. Just reflashing the box and leaving passwd intact should then fix the problem.

[mircsicz]

Yes I restored a backup, and the entry in passwd is missing... And I just checked the backupscript, it save'd and restored /etc/passwd!

Could you please copy your line for me?

Thx in advance

[mircsicz]

Found this posting: http://www.dreambox-...e88eaedca2945f7

And used this hint: echo 'vsftpd:x:998:997::/usr/share/vsftpd/chroot:/bin/false' >> /etc/passwd

I'm not not shure if uid&gid are correct, but it now works!!!


Thx a Ton

[MiLo]

Never backup /etc/passwd. Bad idea. Don't do it, as you have noticed, it WILL break things.

You can safely use AutoBackup, which will correctly preserve your root password.

[mircsicz]

Thx for the hint... But for me staying with my passwd is worth the risk! It's the first prob I had in 3 years since I'm using enigma....

Greetz
Mircsicz

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