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Date:      Sat, 23 Oct 1999 18:37:53 -0700
From:      Michael Haro <mharo@area51.fremont.ca.us>
To:        D Tougas <dtougas@converging.net>
Cc:        Manfred Antar <mantar@pacbell.net>, FreeBSD Ports Team <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: proftpd problem
Message-ID:  <19991023183753.A35662@area51.fremont.ca.us>
In-Reply-To: <19991022233300.B9211@converging.net>; from D Tougas on Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 11:33:00PM -0600
References:  <1317.991023@avias.com> <4.2.1.10.19991022170330.00a9a3f0@pozo.com> <19991022233300.B9211@converging.net>

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As of proftpd 1.2.0p5 and later, you need to edit /etc/pam.conf to add
support for ftp.  To do so, add the following two lines to this file:

ftp auth    required    pam_unix.so         try_first_pass
ftp account required    pam_unix.so         try_first_pass


On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 11:33:00PM -0600, D Tougas wrote:
> I had a problem similar to this and it was because ProFTPd started
> using PAM. There are notes in one of the sub-directories of the port
> which explain how to fix this problem. You need to edit the PAM
> config file to allow authentication for ProFTPd.
> 
> On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 05:09:25PM -0700, Manfred Antar wrote:
> > At 12:25 AM 10/23/99 +0400, Ilya Naumov wrote:
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >recently i've got the following problem with proftpd.
> > >
> > >this daemon (pre8) worked ok until one of recent "make world"s. after
> > >that it started to deny any non-anonymous logins with the following
> > >diags:
> > >
> > >Oct 23 00:18:11 camel proftpd[76540]: PAM(camel): Authentication failure
> > >Oct 23 00:18:11 camel proftpd[76540]: USER camel: incorrect password
> > >from 192.168.2.2 [192.168.2.2] to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:21
> > >Oct 23 00:18:00 camel proftpd[76540]: FTP session closed.
> > >
> > >entries in pam.conf related to ftp are correct and proftpd.conf is
> > >ok too (i guess :).
> > >
> > >so, is it a problem connected to changes in PAM or anything else?
> > >thank you.
> > >
> > 
> > I had the same problem and hacked at it for few hours.
> > the only way I could get it to work was to put
> > 
> > PersistentPasswd        On
> > 
> > in the /usr/local/etc/proftpd.conf file.
> > It stopped working about last weekend.
> > With the above line added it works fine.
> > Manfred
> > =====================
> > ||    mantar@pacbell.net       ||
> > ||    Ph. (415) 681-6235        ||
> > =====================
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> 
> -- 
> Damien Tougas
> Converging Technology Solutions, Inc.
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