FTP won’t authenticate

[hetjan]

I have 10.4.2 Server up and running serving afp, www, ftp, ssh, etc. It’s connected to a directory server running same. When I connect via FTP I get an authentication failure on all accounts, while afp, ssh works great.

Any ideas?

A.

[Anonymous]

Is there anything in the logs? (most likely in the system log)
Can you connect to the ftp server on the OD Master?

HTH
– Leland

[Anonymous]

I had the same problem on a customer’s Xserve today. FTP just stopped working for no apparent reason. Everything else was fine.

Adding the line:

class all real *

to the /Library/FTPServer/Configuration/ftpaccess file fixed it!

[Anonymous]

[QUOTE BY= Trev Page] I had the same problem on a customer’s Xserve today. FTP just stopped working for no apparent reason. Everything else was fine.

Adding the line:

class all real *

to the /Library/FTPServer/Configuration/ftpaccess file fixed it![/QUOTE]

This poster may have been joking, but just to clarify, this will allow anyone to access your ftp sharepoints.

I had the same problem as the original poster, and I found that my /Library/FTPServer/Configuration/ftpaccess file was hosed.

I stopped the ftp service, and then replaced the contents of the /Library/FTPServer/Configuration/ftpaccess file with those of /Library/FTPServer/Configuration/ftpaccess.default

I restarted the ftp service, and then made adjustments to the ftp settings in server admin to reflect what I wanted for my site. Crucially, as opposed to the quoted poster, the line should read:

class realusers real *

That way only authenticated users have access to the appropriate ftp sharepoints.

HTH

Nick

[Anonymous]

Sorry for reopening the subject but I have an additional question… I did have the same problem twice, once I could fix it by taking the ftpaccess.default but I didn’t tought of making a copy of it… So when my ftp somehow broke down again I went looking on the web and found this subject wich was very helpful, my ftp server is now working again, apparently adding
class realusers real *
was enough to make it run properly. Now the problem was that this time my ftpaccess file was containing only one line wich was something like that (there was something like krb5 before it, I can’t exactly remember)
ftp/[email protected]
(where myhost.ext is my server’s address). So my question is WHERE did it come from and WHAT did put it there ?? It’s obsviously a Kerberos command or something in that direction but what has it to do with my ftp file…

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