ahhh! ProFTP would'nt let me connect
emmm knid of two questions
I am trying to set up pro ftp to allow users to access the /var/www directory on my PC but alas it wouldnt even let the local machine connect. I have set it up edited hosts.allow and host.deny to allow remote machines to connect. each time I try it just says connection refused right out. I am running mandrake 9.1 here is my proftp.conf file ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// # This is a basic ProFTPD configuration file (rename it to # 'proftpd.conf' for actual use. It establishes a single server # and a single anonymous login. It assumes that you have a user/group # "nobody" and "ftp" for normal operation and anon. ServerName "servername" ServerType inetd DeferWelcome off ShowSymlinks on MultilineRFC2228 on DefaultServer on AllowOverwrite on TimeoutNoTransfer 600 TimeoutStalled 600 TimeoutIdle 1200 DisplayLogin welcome.msg DisplayFirstChdir .message LsDefaultOptions "-l" DenyFilter \*.*/ # Uncomment this if you are using NIS or LDAP to retrieve passwords: #PersistentPasswd off # Port 21 is the standard FTP port. Port 21 # To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes # to 30. If you need to allow more than 30 concurrent connections # at once, simply increase this value. Note that this ONLY works # in standalone mode, in inetd mode you should use an inetd server # that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service # (such as xinetd) MaxInstances 30 # Set the user and group that the server normally runs at. User nobody Group nogroup # Normally, we want files to be overwriteable. <Directory /*> # Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new files and dirs # (second parm) from being group and world writable. Umask 022 022 AllowOverwrite on </Directory> # chroot for all users of the group ftpuser DefaultRoot ~ ftpuser # grant login only for members of the group <Limit LOGIN> DenyGroup !ftpuser </Limit> # disable root login and require a valid shell (from /etc/shells) <Global> RootLogin off RequireValidShell on </Global> # increase UseReverseDNS off IdentLookups off # Logging formats LogFormat default "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" LogFormat auth "%v [%P] %h %t \"%r\" %s" LogFormat write "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" # activate logging # every login ExtendedLog /var/log/ftp_auth.log AUTH auth # file/dir access ExtendedLog /var/log/ftp_access.log WRITE,READ write # forr paranoid (big logfiles!) #ExtendedLog /var/log/ftp_paranoid.log ALL default ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// also mandrake has this nasty habit of rewriting the hosts.allow and setting it back to ALL:ALL EXCEPT 127.0.0.1:DENY What is rewriting this file and how can i stop it. Thanks gaelen |
It sounds like your "connection refused" message is occuring when you first login.
Is your proftpd daemon accepting connections directly, or are you using the super daemon inetd to handle connections? If you are using inetd (or xinetd), you need to make sure that inetd is configured to accept these connections for proftpd. I have also had ftp connections fail when the user's shell (as defined in /etc/passwd) was not listed in /etc/shells. |
Ok It just got a little bit more intresting. I checked my /ect/passwd and /ect/shells and the shell I am using is listed in there. I believe it handles the connections directly.
but I also did I tcpdump on port 21 and attempted a login from a remote andthe local machine and low and behold nothing showed up. (boggled by this problem) |
I would really spprecatite it if some one could tell me what is rewriting /ect/hosts.deny back to the default I have to always go in and comment out
ALL:ALL EXCEPT 127.0.0.1: DENY as mandrake seams to like it being in there (boggles again) |
You might have a cron job doing this. Your distro could well have set this up as a security measure. Places to start looking are to invoke "crontab -l" as root to see what cron jobs root has scheduled, and look in your /etc/ directory for something that is setting up regular cron jobs.
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