problem with user ftp

[Meirone Luca]

hi all,
in the syslog.log i have the follow strings ftpd[25063]: pam_authenticate: Authentication failed 134217759
What does it mean?
Luca

[Sebastian Galeski_1]

Hi
Is yours ftp password starting with "-" ???

[PIYUSH D. PATEL]

Hi,

This is a normal function of CDE. The error you are seeing because PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) returned an error status due to some problems. May be the user password was wrong..or some other problem.

Ypu can check out this file and also check the user name and password.

This error can be suppressed by modifying the /etc/pam.conf file:
/etc/pam.conf:

# PAM configuration
#
# Authentication management
#

login auth required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1 nowarn

su auth required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1 nowarn

dtlogin auth required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1 nowarn

dtaction auth required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1 nowarn

ftp auth required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1 nowarn

OTHER auth required /usr/lib/security/libpam_unix.1 nowarn

(each of these sections should appear on a single line).

This is also documented in the pam_unix(5) man page.

Go thro tha man page and find out.
HTH,
Piyush

[Steve Steel]

Hi

There is a small change which seems to have slipped into ftpd which causes this
.

Passwords beginning with -

If you have such a password change it
or

FTPD (from 2.4 onwards) has the "long replies" feature and this can be disabled by using a - before the password..
On a
secure system or shadow password a - (hyphen) is not allowed at the
start of a password.


NOTE: Users whose password starts with a dash, need an extra dash
in the beginning of the password to succeed. However, the
"long replies" feature will then be disabled .



Steve steel