Hi, I installed proftpd while installing SuSE 6.2, activated it in inetd.conf and did kill -1 on inetd. I did not change proftpd.conf. Then I logged in per ftp as a normal user (letzas) - and downloaded /etc/shadow. Here are the logs (two trys): /var/log/messages: Sep 23 21:59:07 glutamat proftpd[1189]: connect from root@192.168.1.111 Sep 23 21:59:13 glutamat proftpd[1189]: FTP login as 'letzas' from somat.homenet [192.168.1.111] to 192.168.1.112:21 Sep 23 21:59:13 glutamat proftpd[1189]: FTP session opened: letzas/users somat.homenet[192.168.1.111] Sep 23 22:00:34 glutamat proftpd[1219]: connect from letzas@192.168.1.111 Sep 23 22:00:39 glutamat proftpd[1219]: FTP login as 'letzas' from somat.homenet [192.168.1.111] to 192.168.1.112:21 Sep 23 22:00:39 glutamat proftpd[1219]: FTP session opened: letzas/users somat.homenet[192.168.1.111] /var/log/xferlog: Thu Sep 23 21:59:35 1999 0 somat.homenet 1010 /etc/shadow b _ o r letzas ftp 0 * Thu Sep 23 22:00:53 1999 0 somat.homenet 1010 /etc/shadow b _ o r letzas ftp 0 * regards, Ivo Letzas