RE: [gentoo-dev] Normal user login with ProFTPd?

["Will Rogers" <wjr@wam.umd.edu>]

> * do you have pam in your USE variable in /etc/make.conf?  

The only edits I've done to make.conf are to uncommend the optimization
options for 686 processors.  The /etc/make.profile file has USE set to
include all of the recommended options (including pam).  My
understanding is that this sets the defaults; make.conf customizes those
defaults.  Is this correct?

> * do you have /etc/pam.d/ftp?  That should be the pam 
> configuration file 
> that is used (this is set in the proftpd conf file as AuthPAMConfig).

The file exists.  I tried using the default settings and the Red Hat and
SuSE recommended settings from the README.PAM in the proftpd source
archive, none seemed to work.

I downloaded the source and recompiled it (I had done a binary
installation from the rc5 cd before) and it didn't change anything.  I
can still log in anonymously but not with my user account.  There might
be something basic I'm missing; has anyone else gotten this to work?  I
found it really tough to find documentation on logging in to system user
accounts on the proftpd site.  If someone could post a simple
step-by-step maybe we could figure out where the problem is.

A few more observations:

The binary I had first installed from the rc5 cd put its configuration
in /etc/proftp/proftpd.conf, but the version I downloaded and compiled
(both marked 1.2.2_rc3) put it in /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf (note the
difference in directory name).

The default proftpd.conf file does not work out of the box--it causes a
"could not change gid" error.  I changed the "Group nogroup" to "Group
nobody" and it worked fine.


Thanks again,

Will Rogers
wjr@wam.umd.edu