proftpd

Rain Designs · Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2003 5:47 am Post subject: proftpd

I run proftpd on mandrake and I can't figure out how to add a user!!!

This is what I tried...

cram · Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2003 6:34 am Post subject:

if your version of adduser doesn't automatically create home directories, that could result in a refused connection
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Rain Designs · Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2003 3:19 pm Post subject:

I'm pretty sure that /home/username is the default home directory. I'll try to add the home directory and see if that works.

Thanks

Rain
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really · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2002 Posts: 430 Location: nowhere

you need to add the username to /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
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Rain Designs · Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 1:02 am Post subject:

well...

proftpd.conf was in /etc so I edited it, but it didn't say anything about usernames. Got any other ideas?

Thanks,

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jukka · Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 1:26 am Post subject:

Rain Designs · Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 1:29 am Post subject:

well I first enter in ftp://mydomain into my browswer, then it prompts me for a username and pword, I input username and password, it doesn't work, then I try to login as alex:password and that works. alex belongs to wheel, I added alex in the mandrake install.

Thanks

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darktux · Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 1:42 am Post subject:

Show us proftpd's log... I'm sure it will explain a _very_ lot..
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Rain Designs · Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 1:55 am Post subject:

there were no logs in /var/log/proftpd where else could I find the logs?

Thanks

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jukka · Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 2:00 am Post subject:

Rain Designs · Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 2:03 am Post subject:

I can't login to the console.

Thanks

Rain
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darktux · Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 2:21 am Post subject:

Rain Designs · Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 2:23 am Post subject:

I was viewing the logs as root. I can't login as username. /var/log/messages doesn't exist

Any other thoughts?

Thanks for all the help

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jukka · Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 5:13 am Post subject:

Rain Designs · Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 6:10 am Post subject:

I had to passwd the user!!!

Thanks

Rain
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