Question

CentOS FTP

Asked by: billy_howard

Hi,

Could some please help me - this has been driving me insane for a while now!

I usually use debian and install proftpd without issue.

But now im using centos and when I install VSFTPD on centOS 5.4 I install VSFTPD and I just cant login. I have created a seperate account called "billy" but it will not login.

Could anyone help?!?!

Cheers
Billy

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2009-11-04 at 01:55:51ID24870278
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Answers

 

by: legolasthehansyPosted on 2009-11-04 at 02:06:16ID: 25737800

Hi Billy,

Have you started the service. On Centos you need to start FTP service as,

service vsftpd start

Once done, try logging in to the FTP server from command line,
ftp localhost
and see if you are able to login as the user,

Next, try ftp from a different machine to the FTP server.

 

by: billy_howardPosted on 2009-11-04 at 02:15:50ID: 25737863

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

I get the prompt up so I am connecting to the FTP service but it just doesnt seem to authenticate me.

It is started:

[root@maggie log]# service vsftpd status
vsftpd (pid 12357) is running...


Billy

 

by: legolasthehansyPosted on 2009-11-04 at 02:28:16ID: 25737926

See if local users are able to login to the FTP server..
From the man of vsftpd.conf,

local_enable
              Controls  whether local logins are permitted or not. If enabled,
              normal user accounts in /etc/passwd may be used to log in.

              Default: NO

 

by: billy_howardPosted on 2009-11-04 at 02:34:02ID: 25737963

Hi,

Yes they are:

# Uncomment this to allow local users to log in.
local_enable=YES

Also i get this in the secure log file:

"Nov  4 10:39:56 maggie proftpd: pam_unix(proftpd:session): session closed for user billy"

Thanks

Billy

 

by: legolasthehansyPosted on 2009-11-04 at 02:41:01ID: 25737993

The service should have logged with vsftpd and not proftpd..
Are you using the correct password?
Can you disable proftpd if it is running?

 

by: billy_howardPosted on 2009-11-04 at 02:53:47ID: 25738047

Oh my mistake,

that was from when I failed to use proftpd which is what i normally use. no new messages since I started to use vsftpd and the password is correct yes.

 

by: legolasthehansyPosted on 2009-11-04 at 02:59:47ID: 25738076

Can you use how you login from the local machine,

[root@myserver root]# ftp localhost
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
220 ready, dude (vsFTPd 1.1.0: beat me, break me)
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type
Name (localhost:root): username
331 Please specify the password.
Password:

And the error message.

Also see if it dumps its logs in /var/log/secure, /var/log/vsftpd.log

ftp>

 

by: billy_howardPosted on 2009-11-04 at 04:24:37ID: 25738581

That seemed to work:

331 Please specify the password.
Password:
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.


So it's just from remote locations?

Billy

 

by: dzamfirPosted on 2009-11-04 at 04:27:38ID: 25738607

You didn't post the error message but I have a feeling it is related to the SELinux. Try the following:

setsebool -P ftp_home_dir 1
service vsftpd restart

 

by: legolasthehansyPosted on 2009-11-04 at 04:30:01ID: 25738619

If it is working for localhost and not for remote locations, then it could be a firewall problem or related to SELinux as mentioned above.

Good luck!

 

by: dzamfirPosted on 2009-11-04 at 04:41:28ID: 25738679

As long as he gets the login prompt, I don't believe it is a firewall problem. It might be a security one (selinux).

I think will be easier if you could paste the error here. Otherwise is hard to say.

 

by: KeremEPosted on 2009-11-04 at 04:55:10ID: 25738777

It can not be selinux problem if he could login fro the localhost. SELinux just operates with rules and these rules just decide if the executed process has right to access a file or filesystem etc. It does not depende on the address he connects to.  It could either bee firewall problem in that the firewall might like to connect as active FTP while VSFTPD would like passive FTP and vice versa.

I'll suggest the asker to post full messages when he logins from both a remote spot and the localhost. Will you please post the

ftp -v hostname

output here for both the failing and running execution ??

Cheers,
K.

 

by: billy_howardPosted on 2009-11-17 at 14:16:31ID: 25844846

Sorry for late post, solution was:
setsebool -P ftp_home_dir 1
service vsftpd restart


Many thanks for the help !

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