pure-ftpd virtual user issue
 

All virtual users of pure-ftpd can't login although I configured them without any error message!

Login error message:
Here's pure-ftpd configurations:
http://imageshack.us/a/img24/5412/pureadminusers001.png

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Hi,

There is no "-lpuredb:/etc/pureftpd.pdb" among the other runtime options.
As this looks like a debian box, have a look at this howto for details

Regards

How can I add it?
I tried to add it through but nothing changed!

I took a look and applied what it says but I got nothing!!!
PS
I want to use virtual users

I'm not running Debian, but according to the howto, you need to disable PAM and (maybe) Unix auth
Also you have to create a symlink

Didn't fix the issue :(

Doh.
Try to run it directly from CLI:
and see what you get

My bad. I left an extra -l, sorry

Didn't fix the issue!

Where is pureftpd.pdb located? Note that you need to use that location in /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/PureDB
Also, are you sure about the user/password? Change it with:
and try to login again

You can also run the server with less options and in debug mode to check virtual users. Use the correct location of pureftpd.pdb below:

I post it above https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...8/#post4963881

Yes I'm sure, Any way I change it as you suggested
This didn't work!

That's what I saw and understood that we're using the wrong file

If you can't stop it, you can kill it

OK I succefully killed it and run it (as shown below) then tried to login once again but nothing changes.

Check the logs under /var/log to see if you get something

There are no details at all!!!

If you used the command above to start pure-ftpd, then the logs should be under /var/log, as already stated in my previous post.
Dunno what logfile debian uses, but you can check /var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog, /var/log/debug, etc.

I have trimmed your initial configuration information that you have. So far, up to this point, you are doing well.

You may have done all that I am about to share, so if you have, then, I'm not certain what the problem is.

The next step is to go to the auth directory and create a symlink named "50pure" that links to ../conf/PureDB
The next step doesn't involve pure-ftpd so much as it does creating a user with no login credentials and creating the ftp location. This is necessary to give the virtual users something to attach to. (hough you can use any user account, it is best to use one that is completely unprivileged.) You can call this user and group whatever you want but for the sake of the example, I'm calling him ftpuser and likewise, the group will be ftpuser as well.

First, the ftp store with a folder for 3 virtual users:
Next, the generic ftp user account:
Now, make ftpuser the owner of the ftp stores:
Now start making the virtual users:
Now commit those users to the database, and restart the server:
root@server ~ #

I trid the mentioedn above but I got these issues:

You've probably already set up ftpuser, so you'll need to modify the account.
Regarding the last (non-root) uid and gid error, most likely it's being caused by the lack of the group, ftpuser, though on rare occasions, you have to actually be root rather than use sudo to put in virtual users attached to non-login accounts. Considering the other errors you are getting, however, the nonexistent group is more likely the issue.

Back to the first issue: You might just check what groups are assigned to ftpuser, and just use one of those instead, or create the ftpuser group and add it as ftpuser's main group.
To add ftpuser as a group and assign it as the primary group that ftpuser belongs to, do the following as root:
If you choose to use an existing group, change the user info in the chmod command to ftpuser:ftpgroup (or whatever group ftpuser is assigned to.) Likewise, use that same group name after the -g in the pure-pw useradd command.

Hope that helps.

I did exactly what you said but it didn't work too!!!
PS
As you can see I could run "pure-pw useradd" after adding the group "ftpuser" as you said above.

If I'm understanding correctly by the output from what you have, everything is technically up and running as far as the server is concerned, but when you try to connect from the FTP client is when the errors occur.

Yes, but these errors occur in case login by any virtual user the usual users works fine.

I'm unfortunately starting to run out of ideas. Have you checked the settings in /etc/default/pure-ftpd-common? Make sure that it looks something like this:Beyond that, I will probably have to defer to someone else.

Thanks a lot for your efforts, I replaced pureftpd with proftpd and find the last one much easier to use (it worked within 10 min)

Thanks once again.