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Just curious, but did you turn it on?<br />
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/etc/init.d/proftpd start
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Just curious, but did you turn it on?

/etc/init.d/proftpd start

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yes its started and accepting connections, but it dont accept the user/pass combination.
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yes its started and accepting connections, but it dont accept the user/pass combination.

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Maybe if you look in this file, can you see any errors?<br />
/var/log/proftpd.log
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Maybe if you look in this file, can you see any errors?
/var/log/proftpd.log

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cat: /var/log/proftpd.log: No such file or directory
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cat: /var/log/proftpd.log: No such file or directory

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Thanks, turned out that my user didnt have a valid shell after I fixed that it worked fine :)
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Thanks, turned out that my user didnt have a valid shell after I fixed that it worked fine :)

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aha! &nbsp;I should have thought of that, it is common. &nbsp;(-:
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aha!  I should have thought of that, it is common.  (-:

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I installed proftpd with the packages from apt-get, however after its installed I cant login with any users.<br />
I googled and found it may be missing shadow support, but how do I fix that without going for a custom compile ?<br />
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The server is running, but no users can login, nothing(ftp related) in var/log/messenges<br />
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I installed proftpd with the packages from apt-get, however after its installed I cant login with any users.
I googled and found it may be missing shadow support, but how do I fix that without going for a custom compile ?

The server is running, but no users can login, nothing(ftp related) in var/log/messenges



PROFTPD Debian 3.1 Cant login

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