asked on 9/9/2013

FTP with username having tilde character

Hi,

I am trying to do FTP as an account with tilde character in the username (Ex: ~user1) and FTP login fails.

Do FTP (vsftp and Solaris FTP) support logins with tilde character in user names?

Appreciate your response.

Regards,
Aravind G

Linux Unix OS

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gheist

9/13/2013

HalldorG

9/9/2013

Have you tryed using \ before the ~?

aravindgopaluni

9/9/2013

ASKER

Yes, I have tried that option, but still the same failure

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9/9/2013

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omarfarid

9/9/2013

How the username with ~ was created? Why do you need ~ in the username?

Also, did you try to put ' around the username?

aravindgopaluni

9/9/2013

ASKER

My UNIX system is integrated with Microsoft AD to allow AD user authentication to login to UNIX servers.

This tilde account is created in AD with required UNIX attributes. SSH login works fine as tilde account, but FTP is failing though.

I have tried enclosing the user name in single quotes and double quotes as well (Ex: '~502184677' or "~502184677"), but no luck.

Joseph Gan

9/9/2013

Have you tried to use "sftp" ?

aravindgopaluni

9/9/2013

ASKER

Yes, sftp and scp works fine. I believe as they use SSH as the underlying protocol, and as SSH works fine, they are also letting ~user to login successfully.

gheist

9/13/2013

Can you make program you call "ftp" use PAM like kind SSH does? Like copying over pam config or so?