Proftpd FTP accounts can not login.

[Manie]

Hi all,

Today I noticed that the ftp accounts created throug "user level FTP Management" did not work for my server.

I tried all the things I could google up, but so far still not able to fix this.
Now I found this item in the knowledge base:

http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=205

Which I tried to see if it is a password related error.
However, this script only returns 2 lines, instead of my current 11 ftp users.
I have more then 2 users active, and the user-level-created once are not even generated by this script.
Is this how it is intended to be?

Anyone got a clue why a
[email protected] user in proftpd.passwd could keep giving incorect login errors?

Kind regards,
Armand

 

[zEitEr]

[email protected] user in proftpd.passwd could keep giving incorect login errors?

It depend on FTP client I guess, not all FTP might correct work with such logins, it would look like the following line:

ftp://[email protected]:[email protected]/

So try different FTP client and read FTP logs either in shell or in directadmin log viewer.

 

[Manie]

mmm, you seem to be right:

virtual1:/etc# telnet localhost 21
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 ProFTPD 1.3.3e Server ready.
USER [email protected]
331 Password required for [email protected]
PASS test123
230 User [email protected] logged in

Thanks for this usefull insight!

 

[Manie]

However, DirectAdmin is forcing the [email protected] with the @ inside.
Does this not make things unnecessary complicated to end-users?

 

[zEitEr]

You might need to change ftp_sep in directadmin.conf

 

[toml]

However, DirectAdmin is forcing the [email protected] with the @ inside.
Does this not make things unnecessary complicated to end-users?

That is only required if the user is a virtual FTP user and not a domain owner. The domain owner can login without an email address as a username. This convention is really the only way to create virtual FTP users on a shared server. There needs to be something to differentiate between FTP user joe from the domain example1.com from user joe associated with example2.com. Since both domains are most likely owned by to completely different users, they both might have the need to create a user joe and that is the method chosen to keep them separate.