I have some issues related with proftpd.

I created new unix user with work directory /opt/lampp/htdocs/somedirectory

when i try to login with it through filezilla server sends me an auth error (530 login incorrect).

logs tell the same, no details. What can i do?

password is copypasted so it cant be a auth error. How can i solve this?

manythanks.

Which information may i provide you in order to test this?

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First of all please, please consider NOT using Xampp: most common Linux distributions make it easy to install (and maintain!) a web server, interpreter and database so you don't need some script for it. Most importantly however its own documentation states Xampp is not for production use. So please properly harden the machine, users and services and please do not expose it unnecessarily. Secondly on a regular server one should check if user credentials are working (using a command line ftp client?), if Proftpd itself was properly configured, if there's firewall issues or if the FTP service or PAM stack throws errors. The first reflex would indeed be to check the log files. So which ones did you check?

Hi, many thanks to the early response.

probably xampp is not the best one, but ni used for a long and now i cant migrate to another package. Maybe later.

I checked, proftpd.log (which is the main log, general prupose) and the proftpd system log.

both of them tells that password is incorrect, but that is ... simply not real.

There are alternatives? can i use another software. How can i unninstall proftpd from xampp and use another ftpserver?

because i have checked this issue for 2 days with no updates.. maybe is a bug. I can even login with root credentials in proftpd through filezilla..

Procrastinating is not the way to deal with admin and security issues.


Then please check if user credentials are working (using a command line ftp client both locally and remotely) and check the system logs, usually in /var/log.