vsFTPd trouble

SnowSurfAir · 03-20-2005, 03:03 PM

Ok well mabye this helps. When I connect to this server on this server I get this error:

Code:

500 OOPS: vsftpd: security: 'one_process_model' is anonymous only

Hangdog42 · 03-21-2005, 07:44 AM

This is from your config file:

Quote:

one_process_model=YES

According to the vsftpd man page, the default for this is NO. Is there a reason why you changed this? Please note that I'm also just guessing about this being the cause of the error you're seeing.

SnowSurfAir · 03-21-2005, 11:09 AM

Well that solves that problem. I can now log in as anonymous on this server, but I get a 530 error: login incorrect. whenever I try to log in as a user. What could be causing this?

Hangdog42 · 03-21-2005, 01:16 PM

I'm not sure how you would check this on RH9, but do you know if you use /etc/passwd for user accounts or do you use PAM? Using local_enable checks the user against /etc/passwd, and if RH9 uses PAM for authentication, that may account for the error you see. Unfortunately, since I use Slackware (which doesn't use PAM), I have no advice either on how to check if you are using PAM and if you are, how you get vsftpd to use it.

You also might want to turn on log_ftp_protocol and see if logging additional information can shed some light on what is going wrong.

I suppose it is also possible that if you have been messing with userlist_enable and userlist_deny, you might be causing this sort of an issue. It might not be a bad idea to make sure they are both set to their default.

SnowSurfAir · 03-21-2005, 02:27 PM

Well I never installed PAM. Ill check and see if it is there. If it is, I will have to recompile vsftpd with the PAM option.

SnowSurfAir · 03-22-2005, 01:27 PM

You were right. I did have PAM installed on this system. All I had to do was copy over a file and now I can log in. Thank you very much!

Hangdog42 · 03-22-2005, 01:47 PM

Cool. I'm glad it was PAM because otherwise I'm outta ideas

buffed317 · 03-22-2005, 04:23 PM

i am having the same problem. what file did you copy over? how did you include pam support during installation?

thanks

snowsurfair: that winxp link has to be the funniest thing i have ever seen

SnowSurfAir · 03-22-2005, 10:35 PM

First off, I did a little google linux search and someone was having the same problem with wuftpd, or something. Anyway to find out you have PAM open a terminal and type:

Code:

rpm -qa | grep pam

If you have it installed it should list them. I had a couple listed. If you need them I will post them, but as long as you come up with something, you should have PAM installed.

Since I did have it installed, I referred to the install file and it says to do this as root:

Code:

cp RedHat/vsftpd.pam /etc/pam.d/ftp

You have to do that in the directory that you unpacked the tar file. It just copies the file from the RedHat folder to the place it needs to be. I did not have to recompile it because when I did try it said that it already was the newest version. To clarify, I thought the instructions said it needed PAM support compiled into it, but it turned out it only needed that file copied. Hope this helps.

P.S. I though that winxp thing was hilarious also.

buffed317 · 03-23-2005, 07:33 AM

the file copy fixed it for me too. thanks