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Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 01:55:53 -0700
From: Geoffrey Mainland <mainland@apeiron.net>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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Subject: ProFTPd, PAM and NIS
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I have had no luck getting ProFTPd (proftpd-1.2.2rc1 installed from
ports) working with NIS. Non-NIS accounts can log in, but NIS accounts
cause proftpd to output

PAM(user): Authentication failure.

when I run it in debug mode.

The stock ftpd works fine of course and it uses PAM. The PAM code in
both looks very similar, so why does proftpd choke on NIS accounts? Do
they relinquish privileges at different times so that proftpd can't
use something it needs to do NIS account lookups through PAM?

Thanks for any help you can give.

Geoff

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