I am having trouble configuring wu-ftpd on my system to allow a real user to login. I am not sure where to start. I'll try to give as much information as possible.

Here is a log of what happened.

ftp> open 10.196.31.84
Connected to 10.196.31.84.
220 (none) FTP server (Version wu-2.6.2(1) Thu Feb 12 12:38:43 PST 2009) ready.
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type
Name (10.196.31.84:root): root
331 Password required for root.
Password:
530 Login incorrect.
Login failed.

The user and password are correct as I can login using telnet.

I am using Linux 2.6.27 with a very minimal file system (created from ELDK SELF image)

The file /etc/ftpusers is blank.
Here is a copy of /etc/ftpaccess.

class all real,guest,anonymous *

email root@localhost

loginfails 5

readme README* login
readme README* cwd=*

message /welcome.msg login
message .message cwd=*

compress yes all
tar yes all
chmod no guest,anonymous
delete no guest,anonymous
overwrite no guest,anonymous
rename no guest,anonymous

log transfers anonymous,real inbound,outbound

shutdown /etc/shutmsg

passwd-check rfc822 warn

And here is a copy of /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftpd

# default: on
# description: The wu-ftpd FTP server serves FTP connections. It uses \
# normal, unencrypted usernames and passwords for authentication.
service ftp
{
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.ftpd
server_args = -l -a
log_on_success += DURATION USERID
log_on_failure += USERID
nice = 10
}

I'm not sure what other information would be helpful, but this is everything that I can think of that could be useful.

Thank you in advance for the help.

Ron

Take a look in the log files for any pointers.
Can you login as normal user? not root
root is by default forbidden to use ftp

I haven't created any other users for this system as of yet. I can only login as Anonymous or ftp.

I did just try creating another user and I cannot login like this either.

Ron

how did you created the user?
did you used adduser?
which distribution are you using?

Yes I did use adduser

I'm using the linux 2.6.27 as found on kernel.org

Ron

take a look in
/etc/ftpusers
to see if the users are not excluded

Ron

There's a part of me that feels that perhaps this has to do with pam authentication. I am trying to read up on it currently but I don't know how it works as of now.

which distribution?
How did you installed wu-ftpd ?
It's weird /etc/ftpusers is blank

By distribution I'm guessing you mean Debian or Fedora, etc. There is no distribution. I built this kernel myself from the source found at kernel.org. I downloaded the source, configured it, and built it. My system is an embedded PPC system.

I am building a file system (almost) from scratch. The base file system image I started with had wu-ftpd already "installed", but not properly configured. At least I'm guessing it's not properly configured since I can't login with a real user, but only as a guest.

Ron

Repo,

Thanks for trying. I really appreciate it.

Anyone else have any ideas?

I think I might try switching to vsftpd, but I'm afraid I'm going to run into a similar situation when trying to install it by hand.

Ron