Proftp with Gproftpd user can't login

Marzio-Dance · #1 26th March 2006, 01:03 AM

Installed FC5 last night, and now I have a problem with my Proftpd server, no user can login with their password, even though it's the correct password they use. It only works when I set it up with no pw required.
Is there a way to fix this problem or am I the only one with this FC5 Proftpd/gproftpd problem ?

Thanks for the help

BradW · #2 28th March 2006, 07:30 AM

Marzio,

I have the same problem. In fact, mine started while running FC4. Someone said SELinux might be a problem with FTP (not sure server or client). You might try disabling SELinux. I haven't tried doing so yet.

Brad

whiphubley · #3 28th March 2006, 12:24 PM

the pam file has changed in proftpd in recent fedora rpm's.

get an older rpm which includes /etc/pam.d/ftp rather than /etc/pam.d/proftpd (which I think is the different pam file in the recent releases).

or - if you understand pam files - just edit it yourself :-)

lanrat · #4 11th January 2007, 11:07 PM

hi, i am having this same problem.

i dont know how to edit a pam file and i cant find a old version with /etc/pam.d/ftp

can someone tell me where i can get an old version or tell me another way to fix this problem.

Thanks!

lanrat · #5 13th June 2007, 08:15 PM

anyone, i am still having this problem on fedora 7.

giulix · #6 13th June 2007, 09:43 PM

Assuming the Fedora 7 PAM config file is not the culprit here (I have no ProFTPd installations at the moment), you can grab the package from here, right-click on it in Nautilus, select Open with "Archive Manager", navigate to ./etc/pam.d right click on proftpd and select "Extract". Then, as root, you can copy it tp /etc/pam.d, optionally renaming it to ftp to see if this solves the problem...

lanrat · #7 14th June 2007, 04:38 AM

i only have ssh and webmin to talk to my server. how would i do this on one of thouse?

giulix · #8 14th June 2007, 10:24 AM

Then do as follows: After downloading the package from the link above or using wget, open a terminal and unpack the .rpm with

Code:

rpm2cpio proftpd-1.3.0a-3.fc7.i386.rpm | cpio -idmv

This will unpack the files in the current directory. Grab ./etc/pam.d/proftpd and copy it across using the scp command

Code:

scp proftpd user@target:/home/user

Amend the command above appropriately: user is your user on the target machine, /home/user is the directory you want to copy the file to.

barf · #9 14th June 2007, 12:21 PM

I used Proftp for about 9 months and then went back Vsftp it is so much easier to set up and does the job just fine. So my recommendation, biiff Pro and install Vs

lanrat · #10 15th June 2007, 12:37 AM

i need proftpd, vsftp wont work for me. (i have resons)