RE: [Proftpd-user] Authentication problems

[TJ S. <tj...@ca...>]

> 1. I copied the user line from the /etc/master.passwd file for the user
> test54 into the ftpd.passwd file that had been created by ftpasswd. BOMB!
> Incorrect password!
>
> There is something about this format that proftpd is not reading correctly:
>
> test54:5UtJekQOSOVC6:1002:1002::0:0:test54.rhyton.com:/:/bin/csh

Right: that format is something specific to FreeBSD's passwd.master file,
and is not the format expected/handled by mod_auth_file.  There are too
many fields in the above line for mod_auth_file.

TJ

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