ProFTP login
 

hi there,

i'm looking into using G4U and i'm starting to get everything ready and i need a FTP server going, i'm useing slackware 10.0 and the default install of ProFTP. i've got it all starting but now i can't seam to log into it, i'm not sure if i need to define a folder to store files in or not and if i need to setup a password and username for this folder, can someone help me out? with a how-to guide or just some basic intruction.

This site has some good and easy to understand hot-to's.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ticle&artid=17

i think this guy in the forum came up with the soluction to my problem but he didn't explain how he fixed it.

http://forums.proftpd.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=260&

he said, 'Again you had right....O....I forget to give rights user (proftpd) wich connect to database.....Sorrry again !!!'

how do i give the user rights to access the database?

I know this isn't necessarily an answer to your question, but have you looked at VSFTPd? I've used both on production servers, and VSFTPd is *much* faster, and easier to setup / use.

http://vsftpd.beasts.org/

Vsftp is installed in slack by default. Just comment that line out of /etc/inetd.com instead of proftp. There's no need to download and build it.

hi there i'm a bit of a webmin fan, does Vsftp have a webmin module?

I'm sure there is, vsftpd is very widely used. Even if it doesn't configuration of it is extremely simple.

I have proftp running on 10 and 10.1
I have a user ftp under home for anon login and other user directories for named login. Follow the instructions in the proftpd.conf to enable anon login and modify it if you want a chroot jail for named logins

okay there, i've taken some advice here and go the vsftpd webmin module, edited the /etc/inietd.conf file and i now have vsftpd started and running, now my problem is when trying to access it via my XP box using IE ftp://192.168.0.20 it seams to automaticallu log me in? i was looking for maybe a username/password box?

alos when i log in via the command line with ftp localhost i can log in as root, but nothing esle

root@LearnS:/# ftp localhost
Connected to localhost.
220 Welcome to blah FTP service.
Name (localhost:root): root
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp>

where as when i try my pma user,

root@LearnS:/# ftp localhost
Connected to localhost.
220 Welcome to blah FTP service.
Name (localhost:root): pma
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
530 Login incorrect.
Login failed.
ftp>
can someone help me out

Sounds like you have anonymous enabled, and no authentication.
Here is my vsftpd.conf; it only allows users with a valid account on the server to login.

You can safely ignore the ssl part and below if you don't want to use encryption.

here are the exacute commands i did.

1)
root@LearnS:/# locate vsftpd.conf
/etc/vsftpd.conf
/etc/vsftpd.conf.webmin.bak
/usr/doc/vsftpd-2.0.1/EXAMPLE/INTERNET_SITE_NOINETD/vsftpd.conf
/usr/doc/vsftpd-2.0.1/EXAMPLE/VIRTUAL_USERS/vsftpd.conf
/usr/doc/vsftpd-2.0.1/EXAMPLE/INTERNET_SITE/vsftpd.conf
/usr/man/man5/vsftpd.conf.5.gz

2)
root@LearnS:/# rm /etc/vsftpd.conf

3)
root@LearnS:/# pico /etc/vsftpd.conf

4) (place this information into the file)

anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=077
anon_upload_enable=NO
anon_mkdir_write_enable=NO
dirmessage_enable=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log
xferlog_std_format=YES
idle_session_timeout=600
data_connection_timeout=120
nopriv_user=ftp
async_abor_enable=YES
ftpd_banner=Slackbox FTP

5)

log into webmin and restarted the server

6)
visited ftp://192.168.0.20/ and still i automaticlly seams to log into root

How are you accessing the FTP? Web browser? FTP client? Are you connecting as anonymous?

1) How are you accessing the FTP?
i'm trying on several different processes using 'bash' and a web browser

2) Web browser?
internet exproler & firefox

3) FTP client?
nope ...

4) Are you connecting as anonymous?
no, i'm trying to access it by loging in using a local users.

here is what it looks like when i log in as root using the bash command line

root@LearnS:/# ftp localhost
Connected to localhost.
220 Slackbox FTP
Name (localhost:root): root
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp>

here is what it looks like when i log in as a user using the bash command line.

root@LearnS:/# ftp localhost
Connected to localhost.
220 Slackbox FTP
Name (localhost:root): matthewsp
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
530 Login incorrect.
Login failed.
ftp>

is there some way that i can choose users with FTP access or enable certain local users or something simple like that i'm missing.

as far as i understand all i need to do is add a new users with the 'adduser' command?

Are you using the vsftpd included with Slackware or did you compile your own? (I've never used the efault one, though I would assume Pat didn't mess with it)