Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:43:40 -0500 From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> To: menger@dhs.org Cc: dan@freebsddiary.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proftpd and authentication failure Message-ID: <199911111743.AA297222220@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Nov 1999 07:39:42 %2B0800." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911110739040.67090-100000@home.enger.org>
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>Check which user your ftp daemon is running as, if it is running as >nobody, it can't su to the user that is ftping in. To get around this, I >had to switch my ftp user to root and the group as wheel. No, sorry this is just plain wrong. If you fire up proftpd from inetd as root, it will switch to the user being logged in, or if an anonymous login to the user specified in your conf file. You do not have to change your ftp user to root in order to serve both anonymous and non-anonymous logins. That would be a really bad idea. -Mitch >On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > >> >> >ProFTPD Version 1.2.0pre8 is giving me authentication problems. I've >> >been able to get anon ftp running, but if I log in as my regular user id, I > >> >get invalid password. >> >> You didn't say what version of FBSD. It matters. A lot. >> >> >> >Here's the output from running with -d5 >> > >> >received: USER dan >> >received: USER dan >> >received: PASS (hidden) >> >PAM(dan): Permission denied >> >USER dan: incorrect password >> >> I've just been fighting the proftpd/pam/freebsd battle myself today >> and it is now working. More interesting than debug output would be >> to know what is in your log file. >> >> >> >If I add these two lines to /etc/pam.conf >> > >> >ftp auth required pam_unix.so try_first_pass >> >ftp account required pam_unix.so try_first_pass >> >> This is exactly what I have. >> >> >> >I get this eror: >> > >> >received: USER dan >> >received: USER dan >> >received: PASS (hidden) >> >> What error? >> >> >> >And the same again if I add this to pam.conf: >> > >> >ftp session required pam_unix.so try_first_pass >> >> No. You don't want this. Well... That may depend on what version >> of FreeBSD. You definitely don't want it with 3.2-R. >> >> >> >I have no idea how to get regular logins working. I'm ready to toss this >> >aside and go with ftpd. Anyone got proftpd running? >> >> me. >> >> -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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