From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 28 21:52:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mark.iacan.org (mark.iacan.org [208.1.106.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF9C714D28 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:52:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kgun@mark.iacan.org) Received: (from kgun@localhost) by mark.iacan.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA13191; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:52:11 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from kgun) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:52:11 -0600 From: "K. Gunderson" To: Kenneth Wayne Culver Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: proftpd and PAM Message-ID: <19990928225211.A13162@mark.iacan.org> References: <19990928012500.A11176@mark.iacan.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Kenneth Wayne Culver on Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:19:48AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:19:48AM -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 06:33:58PM +0800, Francis A. Vidal wrote: > > > hi all, > > > > > > i couldn't get an ordinary user authenticate on FTP using proftpd. i get > > > error messages in /var/log/messages: > > > > > > PAM(username): Authentication failure > > > USER username: incorrect password from localhost.usls.edu \ > > > [127.0.0.1] to 127.0.0.1:21 > > > > > > what should i add in /etc/pam.conf? i only have the default entries from > > > the 3.3-RELEASE CD. > > > > > > -- > > > francis vidal university of st. la salle, bacolod city, philippines > > > . . . . . . . PGP key available via e-mail / subject: get PGP key > > > u s l s N E T tel. nos. (6334).435.2324 / 433.3526 > > > > I ditched ProFTP since the bug fest, but I think you need to add the > > following: > > > > > > ftp auth required pam_unix.so try_first_pass > > ftp account required pam_unix.so try_first_pass > > ftp session required pam_unix.so try_first_pass > > > > -- > > Ciao--Ken > > http://www.y2know.org/safari > > > > Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > The bugs have been fixed with the latest version. > > Kenneth Culver > Well, that depends greatly on who you talk to. I am optimistic that ProFTP will eventually get things back under control, but am not trusting it for a while longer yet. I'm no security guru, but word from others who are is that the code is pretty hosed. So in the meantime I'd rather be safe than sorry. -- Ciao--Ken http://www.y2know.org/safari Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message