Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:41:51 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Hartleigh Burton <hburton@mraentertainment.com> Subject: Re: proftpd vs PAM authentication Message-ID: <200707161941.58068.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <DA50E60D-20C3-4CD1-84C5-CB62EB8A952B@mraentertainment.com> References: <DA50E60D-20C3-4CD1-84C5-CB62EB8A952B@mraentertainment.com>
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On Monday 16 July 2007, Hartleigh Burton said: > Hi everyone, > > I am relatively new to FreeBSD and have what I hope is a simple > question regarding proftpd and PAM authentication. > > I have just installed proftpd via the available port, and after > installation a message was returned saying: > > ### > Make sure you have the following lines in your PAM configuration > file so that ProFTPd's PAM module can authenticate users correctly. > > ftpd auth required pam_unix.so try_first_pass > ftpd account required pam_unix.so try_first_pass > ftpd session required pam_permit.so > ### > > After reading into this I am confused as to where exactly I should > be entering this information. According to the proftpd README file, > in FreeBSD it likes to get this information from /etc/pam.conf, > whereas LINUX looks in /etc/pam.d/ftp, and what topped it off for > me is the / etc/pam.d/ftpd file. > > Where is the best place to have this configuration information; is > it required considering there is already lines in /etc/pam.d/ftp; > if required should I overwrite /etc/pam.d/ftp or append to the > beginning/ end of the file? > > I hope there is enough information here for someone to help. Any > help provided is greatly appreciated in advance ;) > Actually that isn't required anymore and is a holdover from earlier versions. The pam configuration for ftpd is in /etc/pam.d/ftpd and already contains the required entries. I should probably just remove it to avoid confusion. Beech - Proftpd Maintainer -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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