ftp login not working

[nobaloney]

One of my clients, dedicated server, using proftpd version 1.3.3, called me; he couldn't log in as a newly created virtual ftp user.

Lots of testing, lots of checking. Nothing found.

On a hunch I added /bin/false to /etc/shells, and now it works.

Other servers, running proftpd version 1.3.2, work fine even though they don't have /bin/false in /etc/shells.

In both cases, these are for domains on shared main server ip.

Anyone have any idea?

Jeff

 

[alphadeity]

I've had the same complaint from a few of my clients too. When a restarted the ftp service, it would work for a little bit, but then login problems would reoccur. This was the initial 1.3.3 release back in april. I have been unable to locate the cause of the problem myself. I have not tested the 1.3.3a released this month. Is this the release you're referring to?

 

[localhost]

What's the OS?

 

[nobaloney]

What's the OS?

CentOS 5.x.

Jeff

 

[Freeaqingme]

We can confirm this behavior, though the fix doesn't seem to work; but for some reason it intermittently resolves itself (still testing).

 

[localhost]

Jeff can you post the config file?

 

[alphadeity]

I am trying to duplicate this on my test box with centos 5.5, but I can't duplicate this problem now.

If anybody wants to give it a try, PM me and I can give you temp access to the box to see if you can duplicate this problem.

 

[nobaloney]

Jeff can you post the config file?

The entire proftpd.conf file? Or some other file or portion thereof?

Jeff

 

[Arieh]

Not sure if my case is related: but FTP login wouldn't work for me and customers. Restarting proftpd also failed; I had too kill the pids manually and then starting it again worked, as well as login. Running 1.3.2c.

 

[carlo_gra]

Hi Jeff, usually if I have this problem after an upgrade I use those steps:

mv /etc/proftpd.conf /etc/proftpd.conf.back
cp /usr/local/directadmin/data/templates/proftpd.conf /etc/proftpd.conf
HOSTNAME=`hostname`
IP=`grep $HOSTNAME /etc/hosts | awk '{print $1}'`
perl -pi -e "s#\|SERVER_IP\|#$IP#" /etc/proftpd.conf
/etc/init.d/proftpd restart

I've found them on this forum provided by smtalk: it worked for me everytime.

You must check in proftpd.conf if there is the row to the passwd file.
Please let me know if I've helped you.