You could use ktrace(1) to determine what the ftpd daemon is actually doing. rh> Is the user's shell listed in /etc/shells? It must be there for ftpd to rh> let them in. vt> I run FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE machine. I use ftpd for ftp server daemon. It has vt> very strange behavior with one of user accounts on my machine. Every one user