ProFTP login horror

[Paul Howarth]

Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 15:21 -0500, kevin.j.lisciotti at jpmchase.com wrote:
> 
>>Sorry for top posting but I'm stuck with Lotus Notes at
>>work...anyway, 
>>
> 
> Not an excuse.  The default starts at the top but you can put text
> wherever you want.  I also have notes at work.

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>>Do you have SELinux enabled? Depending on the context settings you
>>have set in SELinux can really lock down a service. Try disabling it
>>if you have it enabled. 
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
>>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?
>>
>>-- 
>> Les Mikesell
>>  lesmikesell at gmail.com

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There's no excuse for not trimming text properly either... there should 
be nothing but a sig below your last reply segment, shouldn't there?

Paul.