Authentication failed of pure-ftpd

I installed pure-ftpd on Ubuntu 8.04 using

aptitude install pure-ftpd

What's the step to add users?

I'm new to pure-ftpd and PAM authentication, but I followed pure-ftpd documentation to do pure-pw useradd then restarted pure-ftpd but no dice.

It still says "authentication failed" when trying to connect with ftp client.

I verified that there is a /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.passwd entry for the user that was added.

So what's the missing piece of the puzzle?

Solution 1:

I've just had a similar problem. I've added user using pure-pw useradd and get 530 Login authentication failed.

The solution was a symlink added to /etc/pure-ftpd/auth directory pointing to /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/PureDB (there is a path to file that keeps ftp users) that shows in alphabetical order before other files in auth, e.g.

cd /etc/pure-ftpd/auth/
ln -s ../conf/PureDB 50PureDB

Then, ls within the same directory returns:

50PureDB -> ../conf/PureDB
65unix -> ../conf/UnixAuthentication
70pam -> ../conf/PAMAuthentication

Solution 2:

Did you run "pure-pw mkdb" after adding users?

Solution 3:

I recently had an issue which was solved here:

http://download.pureftpd.org/pure-ftpd/doc/FAQ

Not enough questions link to the answers in the FAQ.

To log in, the shell assigned to your users must be listed in the /etc/shells file