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Tuesday 16 April 2013

How to fix PROFTPD login failed error

Hello,


If you got incorrect password  on proftpd after installing the package succesfully  and created a user correctly.


First check /var/log/messages


The error for me is as follows.


Apr 16 15:04:15 backup1 proftpd[14860]: ) - FTP session opened.
Apr 16 15:04:14 backup1 proftpd[14837]: - FTP session closed.


Then check the /var/log/secure


If you see error as
USER ftpuser (Login failed): Incorrect password.
Apr 16 14:56:45 backup1 proftpd: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib64/security/pam_stack.so): /lib64/security/pam_stack.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


PAM adding faulty module: /lib64/security/pam_stack.so


Then it is due to some incorrect settings on the default pam security settings of proftpd in


/etc/pam.d/proftpd


take a backup of it and then replace all the codes with below settings


#%PAM-1.0M-1.0
auth required pam_listfile.so item=user sense=deny file=/etc/ftpusers onerr=succeed
auth required pam_shells.so
auth include system-auth
account include system-auth
#session include system-auth
session required pam_loginuid.so
Then save the file and restart proftpd service


Then try to login with the created user. You should be able to login.

Reference-http://blog.redbranch.net/2012/04/17/proftpd-centos-6-pam-unable-to-dlopen-lib64securitypam_stack-so/


Regards
Syamkumar.M

16 comments:

  1. Thanks a lot.

    My ftp was blocked and your solution works !

    You save me a lot of time.

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    1. Great .. Glad that your issue has been fixed. You are always welcome.

      Regards
      Syamkumar.M

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    2. agreed, thanks for the help, worked great for vsftpd 1.2.1

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  2. Thank you for your feedback, glad that your issue has been fixed....

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  3. thanks a lot! I've fucked my mind many times before, but now it fixed! Fuck yeah!

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    1. Thank you for the feedback....., glad that your issue has been fixed....

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  4. It worked for me too :)
    Thank You Syamkumar,

    regards

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    1. Thank you for the feedback....., glad that your issue has been fixed....

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  5. Yup...this was it. Two hours of hair pulling is over!

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  6. Hacia dias que mi ftp se colgaba, gracias a tu post se soluciono el problema. Gracias!!

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  7. I keep getting the same problem no luck for me :(

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  8. Thank you so much for this - works perfectly! :-)

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  9. One point to note that burned me is ... pam_shells.so

    pam_shells.so - this requires that all the allowable shells be in /etc/shells.

    With NIS, because we have many different distro's of Linux and Solaris, our NIS shells are all /usr/local/bin/

    On the machines themselves, in /usr/local/bin/ we create soft links to the shells. i.e. /usr/local/bin/bash --> /bin/bash

    Where I got burned is... even though /bin/bash is in /etc/shells, /usr/local/bin/bash also needs to be in there.

    It's a 10 second fix, but it took me a long time to figure out.

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