user can not login o pure ftpd

Hi Vincent,

You should be able to get this back up and running if you change the user id and group id associated with that ftpuser account that was created in the link you gave up top.

If you type "id ftpuser" from the Linux shell, you'll probably get a UID number that is less then 1000, or a GID number that is less then 1000....perhaps both below 1000.

You can change that number via the "User and Group" menu item underneath the System > Administration menu, or via the shell:

"sudo usermod -u 1001 -p -U ftpuser"
"sudo groupmod -g 1002 ftpgroup"

This is the section of code that causes the error on my end:
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 if (authresult.uid < useruid) {
        logfile(LOG_WARNING, MSG_ACCOUNT_DISABLED, account);
        randomsleep(tapping);
        if (tapping >= MAX_PASSWD_TRIES) {
            addreply_noformat(530, MSG_AUTH_FAILED);
            doreply();
            _EXIT(EXIT_FAILURE);
        }
        addreply_noformat(530, MSG_NOTRUST);
        doreply();
        return;

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Hi Andy,

I can see the ftpuser when I execute the command, "id ftpuser".

However, I can not see it in the System > Administration menu.

If i try to add a ftpuser via the System > Administration menu, I will get a error message, "the user already exist".

I had change my ftpuser id, but still does not work.

Please help.

OK, that part is ok then, so long as both the group and user ID's are above 1000. Now we move over to pure-ftpd itself. Delete the Joe user that they had you add in the instructions, and re-add it:

sudo pure-pw userdel joe
pure-pw useradd joe -u ftpuser -d /home/ftpusers/joe
sudo pure-pw mkdb

Did that get you back up and running?

Hi Andy,

Many thanks for your helping.

After I change user id and group id, I will encounter a message every time when I want to use pureadmin to manage my virtual user accounts.

The message tells me that pureadmin will modify user id and group id, and I have to accept that or I can not use the pureadmin to manage my virtual user accounts.

So I try to set up the virtual use to use my system account as fake root, and it works.

I think Pure-FTPD is compatible with Ubuntu 9.10.

Please tell me, how to I debug on Ubuntu?

Maybe I can find out which section of code that causes the error.

Many thanks.

Regards,
Vincent

Thanks Andy Hodges, that solved my question.

Hi Andy,

Many thanks for the information.