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can't connect to my ftp - - unknown error number

so I am running suse linux enterprise 9, and pure-ftp.  I made sure that the ftpd is running.  When I try to connect to it, I get ftp: connect: unknown error number.

When I allow anonymous in the config file, I can connnect, but can't log in as anything but anonymous.  At one point, I had it so I could log in as a user, and change directories, but an ls would return something like "could not display the contents of .."

I'm sure I just need help with the config file, I would be happy to post it, or email it.  

Thanks.
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Sunjith

Check if you have configured the user config file correctly
also check out /etc/pam.d/ and see how you are authenticating ftp users
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could you be a little more specific?  I'm not a total linux newbie, but where is the user config file, and what in pam.d am I looking for.  Thanks for the help.
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mail:~ # cd /etc/pam.d
mail:/etc/pam.d # ls
.      cups           openwbem  pure-ftpd  rpasswd  sshd     xdm
..     gdm            other     quagga     rsh      su       xdm-np
chage  gdm-autologin  passwd    radiusd    samba    sudo     xlock
chfn   login          pop3      rexec      shadow   useradd  xscreensaver
chsh   netatalk       ppp       rlogin     squid    vsftpd
mail:/etc/pam.d # vi pure-ftpd
#%PAM-1.0
auth       required     pam_listfile.so item=user sense=deny file=/etc/ftpusers onerr=succeed
auth       required     pam_unix2.so            nullok
auth       required     pam_shells.so
account    required     pam_unix2.so
password   required     pam_pwcheck.so          nullok
password   required     pam_unix2.so            nullok use_first_pass use_authtok
session    required     pam_unix2.so            none

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so, I changed a few things, and now I can login as a user, and see everything down to the /srv/www directory, and cd into htdocs from there, but then when I do an ls is says unable to read .

maybe a permissions thing?  


drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      136 Oct 12 07:39 cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root      128 Oct 12 07:32 htdig
drwxrwx-wx  4 root ftp-users 496 Oct 13 09:24 htdocs
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      144 Oct 12 08:23 icons
mail:/srv/www #
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got it!

I chmod 755 htdocs and chown root:root htdocs

that worked.
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can't make a directory though, I get permission denied
hmmm
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