Re: [gentoo-dev] Normal user login with ProFTPd?

[Chad Huneycutt]

Will Rogers wrote:

>I'm setting up proftpd and I've got it configured with xinetd to allow
>anonymous access, but I can't figure out how to allow normal system user
>accounts to log in and access their home directories.  I read through
>the documentation on the proftpd home page and it seems that PAM is the
>way to do this, so I did an 'AuthPAM on' in my proftpd.conf, but it
>didn't Just Work(tm) and I'm not sure how to proceed.  I've only run
>wu-ftpd before and it was an install, start, done kind of deal.
>
Will,
   Someone may be able to supply a complete answer, but here is what I 
can tell you.  Looks like you may need to do a little debugging for us 
(if no one else has already done it).  Here are some things to check:
* do you have pam in your USE variable in /etc/make.conf?  That enables 
the --with-pam flag or whatever for the proftpd ebuild
* do you have /etc/pam.d/ftp?  That should be the pam configuration file 
that is used (this is set in the proftpd conf file as AuthPAMConfig).

If you have all that, then I suggest that you grab 
usr/portage/distfiles/proftpd-1.2.2rcd3.tar.bz2 file, open it and read 
the README.PAM file.

I am sure that someone on the server team will get around to this, but 
if you beat them to it, please report back and let us know what you 
determine.

Thanks,
   Chad (chadh)