I just changed my login shell to bash, and now I can't FTP into my machine. Why not?

I just changed my login shell to bash, and now I can't FTP into my machine. Why not?


You must add the full pathname to bash to the file /etc/shells. As
noted in the answer to the previous question, many systems require
this before you can make bash your login shell.

Most versions of ftpd use this file to prohibit `special' users
such as `uucp' and `news' from using FTP.



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