pureFTPd User login problem

Pro

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Greetings DirectAdmin forums,

I seem to be having a very odd problem with the pureFTd users, I've installed pureFTPd using the following.

Code:
rpm -e proftpd proftpd-standalone
cd /usr/local/directadmin/customapache
wget http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/releases/pure-ftpd-1.0.21.tar.gz
tar -xzf pure-ftpd-1.0.21.tar.gz
cd pure-ftpd-1.0.21
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/run --mandir=/usr/local/man --without-pam --with-ratios --with-virtualchroot --with-virtualhosts LDFLAGS=-static
make
make install
cp -Rp /etc/proftpd.passwd /etc/pureftpd.passwd
cd configuration-file
cp pure-ftpd.conf /etc
chmod 755 pure-config.pl
perl -pi -e 's/^ExtAuth/# ExtAuth/' /etc/pure-ftpd.conf
cp -Rp pure-config.pl /usr/sbin/pure-config.pl
./pure-config.pl /etc/pure-ftpd.conf
mkdir /etc/pure-ftpd
perl -pi -e 's#/etc/proftpd.conf#/etc/pure-ftpd.conf#' /usr/local/directadmin/conf/directadmin.conf
perl -pi -e 's#/etc/proftpd.passwd#/etc/pureftpd.passwd#' /usr/local/directadmin/conf/directadmin.conf

(smtalk posted this)

When I add a user "test123" it well show up in /etc/pureftpd.passwd
Code:
test123:blahblahblahblahblah.:506:506:system:/home/test123:/bin/false

Everything looks fine to me, But when I try to login to the ftp server I get the following.

Code:
220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd ----------
220-You are user number 1 of 50 allowed.
220-Local time is now 20:00. Server port: 21.
220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity.
USER test123

331 User test123 OK. Password required
PASS xxxx
530 Login authentication failed
Disconnecting from site *

But I can still login in as the admin

Code:
220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd ----------
220-You are user number 1 of 50 allowed.
220-Local time is now 20:01. Server port: 21.
220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity.
USER admin

331 User admin OK. Password required
PASS xxxx
230-User admin has group access to: admin
230 OK. Current restricted directory is /

I apologize in advance if I was not allowed to post this, or posted this in the wrong area.

Thanks for any ideas you might have.
 
Well look first check logs for anything that might be wrong. By default it probably sends errors to /var/log/messages

Second make sure that /etc/pure-ftpd.conf can read its own passwd file. Since admin is a real user and test is not.

Third is /bin/false denying the login?
 
/var/log/messages
Code:
Feb 16 23:49:50 server pure-ftpd: (?@IP ADDRESS) [INFO] New connection from IP ADDRESS
Feb 16 23:49:50 server pure-ftpd: (?@IP ADDRESS) [WARNING] Authentication failed for user [username]
Feb 16 23:49:53 server pure-ftpd: (?@IP ADDRESS) [INFO] Logout.

Here is my /etc/pure-ftpd.conf file, I myself didn't see anything that stuck out as a problem. Maybe someone here can see something.

Code:
############################################################
#                                                          #
#         Configuration file for pure-ftpd wrappers        #
#                                                          #
############################################################

# If you want to run Pure-FTPd with this configuration   
# instead of command-line options, please run the
# following command :
#
# /usr/sbin/pure-config.pl /usr/etc/pure-ftpd.conf
#
# Please don't forget to have a look at documentation at
# http://www.pureftpd.org/documentation.shtml for a complete list of
# options.

# Cage in every user in his home directory

ChrootEveryone              yes



# If the previous option is set to "no", members of the following group
# won't be caged. Others will be. If you don't want chroot()ing anyone,
# just comment out ChrootEveryone and TrustedGID.

# TrustedGID                    100



# Turn on compatibility hacks for broken clients

BrokenClientsCompatibility  no



# Maximum number of simultaneous users

MaxClientsNumber            50



# Fork in background

Daemonize                   yes

# Maximum number of sim clients with the same IP address

MaxClientsPerIP             8



# If you want to log all client commands, set this to "yes".
# This directive can be duplicated to also log server responses.

VerboseLog                  no



# List dot-files even when the client doesn't send "-a".

DisplayDotFiles             yes



# Don't allow authenticated users - have a public anonymous FTP only.

AnonymousOnly               no



# Disallow anonymous connections. Only allow authenticated users.

NoAnonymous                 no



# Syslog facility (auth, authpriv, daemon, ftp, security, user, local*)
# The default facility is "ftp". "none" disables logging.

SyslogFacility              ftp



# Display fortune cookies

# FortunesFile              /usr/share/fortune/zippy



# Don't resolve host names in log files. Logs are less verbose, but 
# it uses less bandwidth. Set this to "yes" on very busy servers or
# if you don't have a working DNS.

DontResolve                 yes



# Maximum idle time in minutes (default = 15 minutes)
MaxIdleTime                 15



# LDAP configuration file (see README.LDAP)

# LDAPConfigFile                /etc/pureftpd-ldap.conf



# MySQL configuration file (see README.MySQL)

# MySQLConfigFile               /etc/pureftpd-mysql.conf


# Postgres configuration file (see README.PGSQL)

# PGSQLConfigFile               /etc/pureftpd-pgsql.conf


# PureDB user database (see README.Virtual-Users)

# PureDB                        /etc/pureftpd.pdb


# Path to pure-authd socket (see README.Authentication-Modules)

# ExtAuth                       /var/run/ftpd.sock



# If you want to enable PAM authentication, uncomment the following line

# PAMAuthentication             yes



# If you want simple Unix (/etc/passwd) authentication, uncomment this

# UnixAuthentication            yes



# Please note that LDAPConfigFile, MySQLConfigFile, PAMAuthentication and
# UnixAuthentication can be used only once, but they can be combined
# together. For instance, if you use MySQLConfigFile, then UnixAuthentication,
# the SQL server will be asked. If the SQL authentication fails because the
# user wasn't found, another try # will be done with /etc/passwd and
# /etc/shadow. If the SQL authentication fails because the password was wrong,
# the authentication chain stops here. Authentication methods are chained in
# the order they are given. 


# 'ls' recursion limits. The first argument is the maximum number of
# files to be displayed. The second one is the max subdirectories depth

LimitRecursion              2000 8



# Are anonymous users allowed to create new directories ?

AnonymousCanCreateDirs      no



# If the system is more loaded than the following value,
# anonymous users aren't allowed to download.

MaxLoad                     4



# Port range for passive connections replies. - for firewalling.

# PassivePortRange          30000 50000

# Force an IP address in PASV/EPSV/SPSV replies. - for NAT.
# Symbolic host names are also accepted for gateways with dynamic IP
# addresses.

# ForcePassiveIP                192.168.0.1



# Upload/download ratio for anonymous users.

# AnonymousRatio                1 10



# Upload/download ratio for all users.
# This directive superscedes the previous one.

# UserRatio                 1 10



# Disallow downloading of files owned by "ftp", ie.
# files that were uploaded but not validated by a local admin.

AntiWarez                   yes


# IP address/port to listen to (default=all IP and port 21).

# Bind                      127.0.0.1,21



# Maximum bandwidth for anonymous users in KB/s

# AnonymousBandwidth            8



# Maximum bandwidth for *all* users (including anonymous) in KB/s
# Use AnonymousBandwidth *or* UserBandwidth, both makes no sense.

# UserBandwidth             8



# File creation mask. <umask for files>:<umask for dirs> .
# 177:077 if you feel paranoid.

Umask                       133:022



# Minimum UID for an authenticated user to log in.

MinUID                      100



# Allow FXP transfers for authenticated users.

AllowUserFXP                no



# Allow anonymous FXP for anonymous and non-anonymous users.

AllowAnonymousFXP           no



# Users can't delete/write files beginning with a dot ('.')
# even if they own them. If TrustedGID is enabled, this group
# will have access to dot-files, though.

ProhibitDotFilesWrite       no



# Prohibit *reading* of files beginning with a dot (.history, .ssh...)

ProhibitDotFilesRead        no



# Never overwrite files. When a file whoose name already exist is uploaded,
# it get automatically renamed to file.1, file.2, file.3, ...

AutoRename                  no



# Disallow anonymous users to upload new files (no = upload is allowed)
AnonymousCantUpload         no



# Only connections to this specific IP address are allowed to be
# non-anonymous. You can use this directive to open several public IPs for
# anonymous FTP, and keep a private firewalled IP for remote administration.
# You can also only allow a non-routable local IP (like 10.x.x.x) to
# authenticate, and keep a public anon-only FTP server on another IP.

#TrustedIP                  10.1.1.1



# If you want to add the PID to every logged line, uncomment the following
# line.

#LogPID                     yes



# Create an additional log file with transfers logged in a Apache-like format :
# fw.c9x.org - jedi [13/Dec/1975:19:36:39] "GET /ftp/linux.tar.bz2" 200 21809338

# AltLog                     clf:/var/log/pureftpd.log



# Create an additional log file with transfers logged in a format optimized
# for statistic reports.

# AltLog                     stats:/var/log/pureftpd.log



# Create an additional log file with transfers logged in the standard W3C
# format (compatible with most commercial log analyzers)

# AltLog                     w3c:/var/log/pureftpd.log



# Disallow the CHMOD command. Users can't change perms of their files.

#NoChmod                     yes



# Allow users to resume and upload files, but *NOT* to delete them.

#KeepAllFiles                yes



# Automatically create home directories if they are missing

#CreateHomeDir               yes



# Enable virtual quotas. The first number is the max number of files.
# The second number is the max size of megabytes.
# So 1000:10 limits every user to 1000 files and 10 Mb.

#Quota                       1000:10



# If your pure-ftpd has been compiled with standalone support, you can change
# the location of the pid file. The default is /var/run/pure-ftpd.pid

#PIDFile                     /var/run/pure-ftpd.pid


# If your pure-ftpd has been compiled with pure-uploadscript support,
# this will make pure-ftpd write info about new uploads to
# /var/run/pure-ftpd.upload.pipe so pure-uploadscript can read it and
# spawn a script to handle the upload.

#CallUploadScript yes



# This option is useful with servers where anonymous upload is 
# allowed. As /var/ftp is in /var, it save some space and protect 
# the log files. When the partition is more that X percent full,
# new uploads are disallowed.

MaxDiskUsage               99



# Set to 'yes' if you don't want your users to rename files.

#NoRename                  yes



# Be 'customer proof' : workaround against common customer mistakes like
# 'chmod 0 public_html', that are valid, but that could cause ignorant
# customers to lock their files, and then keep your technical support busy
# with silly issues. If you're sure all your users have some basic Unix
# knowledge, this feature is useless. If you're a hosting service, enable it.

CustomerProof              yes



# Per-user concurrency limits. It will only work if the FTP server has
# been compiled with --with-peruserlimits (and this is the case on
# most binary distributions) .
# The format is : <max sessions per user>:<max anonymous sessions>
# For instance, 3:20 means that the same authenticated user can have 3 active
# sessions max. And there are 20 anonymous sessions max.

# PerUserLimits            3:20



# When a file is uploaded and there is already a previous version of the file
# with the same name, the old file will neither get removed nor truncated.
# Upload will take place in a temporary file and once the upload is complete,
# the switch to the new version will be atomic. For instance, when a large PHP
# script is being uploaded, the web server will still serve the old version and
# immediatly switch to the new one as soon as the full file will have been
# transfered. This option is incompatible with virtual quotas.

# NoTruncate               yes



# This option can accept three values :
# 0 : disable SSL/TLS encryption layer (default).
# 1 : accept both traditional and encrypted sessions.
# 2 : refuse connections that don't use SSL/TLS security mechanisms,
#     including anonymous sessions.
# Do _not_ uncomment this blindly. Be sure that :
# 1) Your server has been compiled with SSL/TLS support (--with-tls),
# 2) A valid certificate is in place,
# 3) Only compatible clients will log in.

# TLS                      1



# Listen only to IPv4 addresses in standalone mode (ie. disable IPv6)
# By default, both IPv4 and IPv6 are enabled.

# IPV4Only                 yes



# Listen only to IPv6 addresses in standalone mode (ie. disable IPv4)
# By default, both IPv4 and IPv6 are enabled.

# IPV6Only                 yes

# UTF-8 support for file names (RFC 2640)
# Define charset of the server filesystem and optionnally the default charset
# for remote clients if they don't use UTF-8.
# Works only if pure-ftpd has been compiled with --with-rfc2640

# FileSystemCharset     big5
# ClientCharset         big5

And I have not tested the /bin/false but I don't believe it could be the problem as the admin user is set the same value.
 
# PureDB user database (see README.Virtual-Users)

# PureDB /etc/pureftpd.pdb

You gotta set this to your virtual user /etc/pureftpd.passwd
 
I've made the change in the config and went to restart and received the following error.

Code:
[root@server etc]# /etc/init.d/pure-ftpd start  
Starting pure-ftpd: Running: /usr/sbin/pure-ftpd --daemonize > /dev/null -A -c50 -B -C8 -D -fftp -H -I15 -lpuredb:/etc/pureftpd.passwd -L2000:8 -m4 -s -U133:022 -u100 -k99 -Z
421 Unknown authentication method: puredb:/etc/pureftpd.passwd
                                                           [FAILED]
[root@server etc]#

Any ideas?
 
Sorry for the late response was busy, Just got done and it worked. Thats for your help.
 
Dont know how your running Pure on DA when there is no password integration script to retrieve the passwords from the /etc/passwd file. You would need to write one or at least a plugin that can do that otherwise new accounts created on the box cannot use pure to FTP. :confused:
 
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