ProFTP

[Micah Bushouse]

Jason Suplizio wrote:
> Greetings,
> Please help: I've spent a good 4-5 hours trying to get ProFTP up and running on my fresh FreeBSD 5.1 install - during which I have read everything that I could get my hands/eyes on and tried every trick I could find.  Essentially, I am trying to set up ftp accounts for 3 users, each with there own unique username/password login - which are working as verified by ssh - to use as a java servlet dev box.  
> 
> The problem: I can not establish an FTP connection to port 21. When it appears that I have an ftp connection, there is no directory listing nor a list of the remote files. I have a small firewall (built-in to my router), and have opened up ports 20 & 21. At one point I got a "PAM(username) authentication error" - but everything looked good (to my eyes) in the /etc/pam.d/ftp & ftpd files.
> 
> I have the server running in standalone mode and is not enabled as inetd service:
> 
> [suplizio at dakota:~] $ ps -auxf | grep ftpd
> nobody     662  0.0  0.7  2144 1672  ??  Ss   11:22PM   0:00.01 proftpd: (accepting connections) (proftpd)
> 
> [suplizio at dakota:~] $ head /etc/inetd.conf 
> # $FreeBSD: src/etc/inetd.conf,v 1.61 2002/11/12 17:31:11 obrien Exp $
> #
> # Internet server configuration database
> #
> # Define *both* IPv4 and IPv6 entries for dual-stack support.
> # To disable a service, comment it out by prefixing the line with '#'.
> # To enable a service, remove the '#' at the beginning of the line.
> #
> #ftp     stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/libexec/proftpd  proftpd
> 
> [suplizio at dakota:~] $ tail /var/log/messages
> Apr 27 23:22:05 dakota sudo: suplizio : TTY=ttyp0 ; PWD=/usr/local/libexec ; USER=root ; COMMAND=./proftpd start
> Apr 27 23:22:05 dakota proftpd[662]: dakota.suplizio.net - ProFTPD 1.2.8 (stable) (built Tue Apr 27 12:30:22 PDT 2004) standalone mode STARTUP 
> Apr 27 23:27:48 dakota proftpd[665]: dakota.******.*** (************) - FTP no transfer timeout, disconnected 
> Apr 27 23:33:51 dakota proftpd[680]: dakota.******.*** (************) - FTP no transfer timeout, disconnected 
>  I am running the default /usr/local/etc proftpd.conf file  - which looks something like this:
> 
> ServerName                      "ProFTPD Default Installation"
> ServerType                      standalone
> DefaultServer                   on
>  
> Port                            21
>  
> Umask                           022
>  
> MaxInstances                    30
>  
> User                            nobody
> Group                           nogroup
>  
> <Directory />
>   AllowOverwrite                on
> </Directory>
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for reading thru this!
> Jason
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> 
If neither of the previous replies to your post work, let me tell you 
about how I've had the limbo connection problem before...  If you 
disregard the PAM error you got for the moment, if you're trying to 
connect to the FTP server from outside your router/firewall and it's 
giving you these halfway limbo connections, it's the firewall.

http://www.obfuscation.org/ipf/ipf-howto.txt

search for "coping with ftp"

Although it's written for IPFILTER, you can get the general idea.

~Micah