ProFTP login horror

[Les Mikesell]

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
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