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Date:      Sat, 23 Oct 1999 18:54:13 -0700
From:      Manfred Antar <mantar@pacbell.net>
To:        mharo@area51.fremont.ca.us, D Tougas <dtougas@converging.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports Team <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: proftpd problem
Message-ID:  <4.2.1.19991023185135.00a74510@pozo.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991023183753.A35662@area51.fremont.ca.us>
References:  <19991022233300.B9211@converging.net> <1317.991023@avias.com> <4.2.1.10.19991022170330.00a9a3f0@pozo.com> <19991022233300.B9211@converging.net>

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At 06:37 PM 10/23/99 -0700, Michael Haro wrote:
>As of proftpd 1.2.0p5 and later, you need to edit /etc/pam.conf to add
>support for ftp.  To do so, add the following two lines to this file:
>
>ftp auth    required    pam_unix.so         try_first_pass
>ftp account required    pam_unix.so         try_first_pass
>
>
>On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 11:33:00PM -0600, D Tougas wrote:
> > I had a problem similar to this and it was because ProFTPd started
> > using PAM. There are notes in one of the sub-directories of the port
> > which explain how to fix this problem. You need to edit the PAM
> > config file to allow authentication for ProFTPd.
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 05:09:25PM -0700, Manfred Antar wrote:
> > > At 12:25 AM 10/23/99 +0400, Ilya Naumov wrote:
> > > >Hello,
> > > >
> > > >recently i've got the following problem with proftpd.
> > > >
> > > >this daemon (pre8) worked ok until one of recent "make world"s. after
> > > >that it started to deny any non-anonymous logins with the following
> > > >diags:
> > > >
> > > >Oct 23 00:18:11 camel proftpd[76540]: PAM(camel): Authentication failure
> > > >Oct 23 00:18:11 camel proftpd[76540]: USER camel: incorrect password
> > > >from 192.168.2.2 [192.168.2.2] to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:21
> > > >Oct 23 00:18:00 camel proftpd[76540]: FTP session closed.
> > > >
> > > >entries in pam.conf related to ftp are correct and proftpd.conf is
> > > >ok too (i guess :).
> > > >
> > > >so, is it a problem connected to changes in PAM or anything else?
> > > >thank you.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I had the same problem and hacked at it for few hours.
> > > the only way I could get it to work was to put
> > >
> > > PersistentPasswd        On
> > >
> > > in the /usr/local/etc/proftpd.conf file.
> > > It stopped working about last weekend.
> > > With the above line added it works fine.
> > > Manfred

I had the above lines in /etc/pam.conf  when it stopped working.
It's something else.
The line :
PersistentPasswd        On
in /usr/local/etc/proftpd.conf enables it to work again.
Manfred



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