ProFTPd not being configured by Virtualmin

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#1 Wed, 08/02/2006 - 21:49
darrylj

ProFTPd not being configured by Virtualmin

Hello,

I just installed Virtualmin and when I create a vserver, everything works except FTP using the default settings.

YES, I made sure that /etc/shells contained the right line, but the default config that Virtualmin writes when you make a vserver isn't letting me login.

Is there something I'm missing? All I want is for each vserver admin to be able to FTP to their home directory.

Any hints/suggestions??

Thanks

Sun, 06/07/2009 - 07:00
darrylj

Almost forgot!

This is the default ProFTPd config:

# This is a basic ProFTPD configuration file (rename it to
# 'proftpd.conf' for actual use. It establishes a single server
# and a single anonymous login. It assumes that you have a user/group
# "nobody" and "ftp" for normal operation and anon.

ServerName "ProFTPD Default Installation"
ServerType inetd
DefaultServer on

# Port 21 is the standard FTP port.
Port 21
# Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new dirs and files
# from being group and world writable.
Umask 022

# Disable IdentLookups by default
IdentLookups off

# To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes
# to 30. If you need to allow more than 30 concurrent connections
# at once, simply increase this value. Note that this ONLY works
# in standalone mode, in inetd mode you should use an inetd server
# that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service
# (such as xinetd)
MaxInstances 30

# Set the user and group that the server normally runs at.
User nobody
Group nobody

# Normally, we want files to be overwriteable.
<Directory /*>
AllowOverwrite on
AllowStoreRestart on
AllowRetrieveRestart on
</Directory>

# Needed for NIS.
PersistentPasswd off

# A basic anonymous configuration, no upload directories.
#[Anonymous ~ftp>
# User ftp
# Group ftp
# # We want clients to be able to login with "anonymous" as well as "ftp"
# UserAlias anonymous ftp
#
# # Limit the maximum number of anonymous logins
# MaxClients 10
# RequireValidShell off
# AnonRequirePassword off
#
# # We want 'welcome.msg' displayed at login, and '.message' displayed
# # in each newly chdired directory.
# DisplayLogin welcome.msg
# DisplayFirstChdir .message
#
# # Limit WRITE everywhere in the anonymous chroot
# [Limit WRITE>
# DenyAll
# [/Limit>
#
#[/Anonymous>

# Default root can be used to put users in a chroot environment.
# As an example if you have a user foo and you want to put foo in /home/foo
# chroot environment you would do this:
#
# DefaultRoot /home/foo foo

# By default webadmin access to /var/www

DefaultChdir /var/www webadmin

<Limit LOGIN>
AllowGroup ftpusers
DenyAll
</Limit>
<Global>
RootLogin off
DefaultRoot ~
DeleteAbortedStores on
HiddenStor on
</Global>

This is what Virtualmin adds for each vserver:

ServerName ${DOM}
<Anonymous ${HOME}/ftp>
User ftp
Group ftp
UserAlias anonymous ftp
<Limit WRITE>
DenyAll
</Limit>
RequireValidShell off
ExtendedLog ${HOME}/logs/ftp.log
</Anonymous>

Wed, 08/02/2006 - 22:03
Joe
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Hey Darryl,

Check the logs in /var/log/proftpd, and let us know what you find.

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Wed, 08/02/2006 - 23:30
darrylj

Hi Joe,

There doesn't appear to be anything in there - no log at all
just an empty directory.

When I open an FTP connection, the server responds with ProFTPd and 530's every login.

Thanks,
Darryl

Thu, 08/03/2006 - 00:30
Joe
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Hey Darryl,

It's gotta be logging somewhere.

Check in /var/log/secure and /var/log/messages for something about the issue. It's hard to guess what's going wrong without some kind of error.

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Thu, 08/03/2006 - 21:55
darrylj

vps18001 proftpd[[3572]]: hostnameremovedbyme (c-68-37-130-133.hsd1.de.comcast.net[[68.37.130.133]]) - FTP session opened.
Aug 2 21:46:04 vps18001 proftpd[[3572]]: hostnameremovedbyme (c-68-37-130-133.hsd1.de.comcast.net[[68.37.130.133]]) - no such user 'djones'
Aug 2 21:46:11 vps18001 proftpd[[3572]]: hostnameremovedbyme (c-68-37-130-133.hsd1.de.comcast.net[[68.37.130.133]]) - no such user 'djones'
Aug 2 21:50:55 vps18001 proftpd[[3572]]: hostnameremovedbyme (c-68-37-130-133.hsd1.de.comcast.net[[68.37.130.133]]) - FTP no transfer timeout, disconnected

Fri, 08/04/2006 - 22:06
darrylj

No errors other than the "no user" error

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