On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 14:08, Marcel Janssen wrote: > This shows nothing, but /var/log/secure does : > > Feb 28 21:06:04 xine proftpd[11050] xine (192.168.0.2[192.168.0.2]): FTP > session opened. > Feb 28 21:06:08 xine proftpd[11050] xine (192.168.0.2[192.168.0.2]): > PAM(marcel): Authentication failure. > Feb 28 21:06:08 xine proftpd[11050] xine (192.168.0.2[192.168.0.2]): USER > marcel (Login failed): Incorrect password. > > I (marcel) log in with the password I have on this machine, so really wonder > why the second line gives me an authentication failure. I haven't used proftpd for a while. Does it have any security options (like not running as root or living in a chroot jail) that would keep it from reading your shadow password file? And out of curiosity, why are you using it instead of vsftpd? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
