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Linux ftp server authentication error

Hi All,

We had an ftp server that...via a perl script, connected to another ftp server and copied files across.

All of a sudden the script stopped working.

We I do a normal ftp to the server...I get the following error

500 'AUTH GSSAPI': command not understood.
500 'AUTH KERBEROS_V4': command not understood.
KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type
Name ({ip address}:ipnd):

Ive restarted vsftpd daemon and looked at other things but I can not source what has changed.

Any ideas?

Steven Vona

First check for multiple servers running on the box your trying to connect to.

Can you the perl script, or at least the part that connects to the server? (remove passwords and other sensitive info)

Network_Padawan

ASKER

Hi,

Heres the code. As mentioned this code was working flawlessly until the server crashed. Rebooted and restart vsftp services and then thats when the script and ftp began producing errors.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Net::FTP;
my $hostname = "x.x.x.x";
my $destdir = "upload";
my $errdir = "download";
my $user =  "username";
my $password = "password";

chdir($destdir);

my @files=<IPNDUPGLOGO.*>;
my $ftp = Net::FTP->new($hostname, Debug => 0) or die "Cannot connect to $hostname: $@";
$ftp->login($user,$pass) or die "Cannot login", $ftp->message;
#   chdir($destdir) or die "Can't chdir to $destdir $!";
    $ftp->cwd("upload") or die "Can't chdir to $destdir $!";
    foreach (@files) {
     $ftp->put($_) or warn "put failed ",$ftp->message;
  }

$ftp->quit;


system("mv * /home/ipnd/processed");

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giltjr

Do you know if the vsftp server had been setup to support Kerberos?

The messages are saying that the ftp client is attempting to use Kerberos as an authentication method and the ftp server is saying that it does not support it.

So either the ftp server had been configured to support this and nolonger does or the ftp client has had something change to where it is trying to use Kerberos and the server never support it.

Network_Padawan

ASKER

hi giltjr,

yes it always used kerberos

what other authentication methods are there? Ill test them out.

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Network_Padawan

ASKER

Ok, so how do i reinstall kerberos or fix it?

giltjr

First I would double check the configuration file on the server and make sure it still has the parameters needed, then make sure all of the packages needed are installed.

Network_Padawan

ASKER

ok it works when I type ftp -u server

How do I script this "-u" in the perl script I had posted above?

Network_Padawan

ASKER

I guess I just need to disable auto-authentication in the configuration. Do you know how to do this?

Network_Padawan

ASKER

Hi, solved it.

Its got nothing to do with kerberos. It has to do with the script itself. Since its my failure Ill assign you points regardess.

giltjr

What OS are you running the script from?

What ftp client are you using?

giltjr

I made my last post before I realized that you had updated and closed it.

Thanks for the points, however I am a bit confused. If the only thing that occurred was the server was re-booted, then I'm not sure how the issue was on the client.

Unless the server had been updated but never restarted and the update changed something that require a change on the client.