ProFTP login horror
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 20:17:10 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 14:08, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> This shows nothing, but /var/log/secure does :
>
> Feb 28 21:06:04 xine proftpd[11050] xine (192.168.0.2[192.168.0.2]): FTP
> session opened.
> Feb 28 21:06:08 xine proftpd[11050] xine (192.168.0.2[192.168.0.2]):
> PAM(marcel): Authentication failure.
> Feb 28 21:06:08 xine proftpd[11050] xine (192.168.0.2[192.168.0.2]): USER
> marcel (Login failed): Incorrect password.
>
> I (marcel) log in with the password I have on this machine, so really wonder
> why the second line gives me an authentication failure.
I haven't used proftpd for a while. Does it have any security
options (like not running as root or living in a chroot jail)
that would keep it from reading your shadow password file?
And out of curiosity, why are you using it instead of vsftpd?
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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