ProFTP Auth problem… please help…

[Lukas]

Hi!

I have a Cube with Mac OS X 10.2.3 Client and MySQL Max 3.23.54a and tried to install ProFTP as a stand alone server with MySQL auth system following the tutorial offered by this site.

Everything went well (even if i got some minor error during compilation) so that my server starts up correctly. My only problem is that there is no way to get logged in. I always get “Login Failed”. I also tried to change the Auth method to PlainText in proftpd.conf and to store plaintext passwords in the database but the error is always the same.

Is it due to the client version of Mac OS X (I think it is not this but…)?

Someone can help me? Someone know how to contact Mr. Brockman (the author of the tutorial)?

Someone having the same problem?

Thanx everybody!

Lukas

[Lukas]

ARGH!!!! Thanx to Xpessdocs!!!

You were right, the problem is that the homedir must be reachable (world writeable). The question is… WHY? If you use Mysql to store user, what is the user ProFTP uses to access the homedir of the logging-in user? That is, what privileges does ProFTP use to access the homedir, if you consider that the logging-in user is not a real unix user? Is it possible that there is no solution to this? I really do not like to leave my dirs world-writeable….

For XPRESSDOCS: I have not so clear the concept of chroot… can you tell me how to use it in tne proftpd.conf in order to protect the hole of the forced world writeable homedir? Thanx a lot

Lukas

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