Pure-FTPd drops connections after authenticating

john G · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 29 Location: St. Louis, MO

Hello All

I'm unable to use Pure-FTPd because the the server immediately closes the connection after I authenticate to it. To eliminate any confusion with using the super server (xinetd), I'm trying to run the ftp daemon from the command line like:

StinkingMonkey · Apprentice Joined: 24 May 2003 Posts: 183 Location: UK

out of curiosity are you running a virtual server ? reason i say this is because i can run pure-ftpd with the default directories located in /home/ftp but after setting up a virtual account with the root directory being /home/ftpusers/project i get the same error.

managed to solve my problem replaced AUTH = "-l unix" in /etc/conf.d/pure-ftpd to AUTH="-lpuredb:/etc/pureftpd.pdb", i followed the readme for virtual hosts on www.pureftpd.org. Theres also quite a few posts from people with the same problem, just do a search for pure-ftpd in forums, hope you get it sorted.

john G · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 29 Location: St. Louis, MO

Thanks for the hints but, no I am not using virtual users. I just wanted to have the people with system accounts able to ftp, so I am using '-l pam' for authentication. Authentication seems to work anyway since I don't get any messages logged to /var/log/pwdfail/current and I do see them when I intentionally mistype a password. The server seems to close the socket immediately after authentication.

Buzzz · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 8:47 pm Post subject:

Are you using pure-ftpd 1.0.16b? That version has a bug with using pam as authentification. If you upgrade to 1.0.16c it should work perfectly!
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john G · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 29 Location: St. Louis, MO

Thanks. That was the problem. Interesting that was also broken for '-l unix' authentication too which was not in the bug report.