FTP Question

[Mark Waterhouse]

Can you provide us further information regarding what the remote user experiences? Errors etc.

What do the log files show?

Have you tried for a 'generic' Internet connection?

Mark



On 16 Jun 2011, at 21:54, Jeff Poling <jpoling at moody.edu> wrote:

> I have a RHEL 4 system.  A user outside of our network previously was able to FTP to the system.  Now he is not.  The log shows the following:
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> 2011 Jun 15 13:23:48 myserver [authpriv.notice] vsftpd: pam_unix(vsftpd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ftp ruser=myuser rhost=1.1.1.1   user=myuser
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> If I log in as the user from on our network, it works just fine.
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> What do I need to check to troubleshoot this?
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> Thanks,
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> Jeff
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