Can't log into FTP

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I am using Virtualmin on CentOS 6.2. A user can’t log in via ftp. It simply says authentication failed. I have set the password manually, and tried to log in but it always says authentication failed. I did some googling, all I could find is a mention of shells. The shell is listed in /etc/shells and I can log in via SSH with the credentials. For some reason proftpd is not working.

I turned up error reporting and only got an incorrect password message. The password is not incorrect.

From /var/log/proftp/error.log
Aug 28 23:15:19 melqart.secusrvr.com proftpd[25913] 27.50.90.194 220.245.128.9[220.245.128.9]): USER hiddenwiki (Login failed): Incorrect password.

I can’t work this out it is driving me crazy, very little is reported in the log. Does anyone experienced with proftpd know what to do?

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Howdy,

Hmm, is it just this one user you’re having problems with? Can you login via FTP as other users?

-Eric

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Seems to be with all users.

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Hmm, we’ve occasionally seen odd issues like that when using ProFTPd from an alternate repo… what’s the output of this command:

rpm -qa | grep proftp

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[root@melqart ~]# rpm -qa | grep proftpd
proftpd-1.3.4a-1.el6.rf.x86_64

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Yeah, there we go… it looks like you’re using the ProFTPd package from the RPMForge repository.

I’d recommend disabling third party repositories – enabling them only to pull in packages you need.

And then, I’d suggest installing the ProFTPd package from the Virtualmin repository in place of the one you have there.

-Eric

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Can you give me the commands to efficiently do that?

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I also am unable to log into FTP since I added a repo via:
rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

I needed to install mytop so that I could troubleshoot a mysql query.

This apparently allowed my proftpd to upgrade to version:
proftpd-1.3.4a-1.el5.rf.x86_64

How would I remove that repo and reinstall the proper version of virtualmin proftpd?

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Yeah how do I get it to ignore repoforge for certain packages and use VirtualMin? I assume Yum supports this.

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My recommendation is to only use third party repos to pull in packages that you need… you can define those packages using the “includepkgs” parameter.

So, edit the .repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d, and set the includespkgs parameter to list only the packages that you want to pull in from that repository.

-Eric

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Well this seems an old thread but for me this was a new problem on a fresh install on a new server. I don’t know if this was right to do as I’m a newbie to server admin and Virtualmin. After reading the above none worked for me but I found a page show how to configure Proftp to use sftp and that led me to do this changes that work. I would be grateful if some would point out if this will give any issues later.

I edited to the conf file as follows;

ServerName “yourDomainOrIPAddress”

Deleted the module load - everything down from - LoadModule mod_sftp.c