Cannot connect to anonymus ftp

Thats what im doing .As i said before i can access the users ftp with no problems at all and super charged speeds.. the problem is that it is asking me for a password for the anonymus user.

[18:30:57] SmartFTP v2.0.996.25
[18:30:57] Resolving host name "wrl.homelinux.com"
[18:30:57] Connecting to 10.10.64.164 Port: 21
[18:30:57] Connected to wrl.homelinux.com.
[18:30:57] 220 Welcomme to my Ftp Server. Enjoy!
[18:30:57] USER anonymous
[18:30:57] 331 Password required for anonymous.
[18:30:57] PASS (hidden)
[18:30:57] 530 Login incorrect.
[18:30:57] Active Help: http://www.smartftp.com/support/kb/index.php/51
[18:30:57] Cannot login waiting to retry (30s)...

were I could posibbly find error logs for proftpd , i looked at /var/log/proftpd but there is nothing in there.

 

What's the output of

Code:

grep anonftp /etc/password

and

Code:

grep anonftp /etc/group

?

 

I think now we are getting somewere....lol

[root@wrl ~]# grep anonftp /etc/password
grep: /etc/password: No such file or directory

[root@wrl ~]# grep anonftp /etc/group
web1_anonftp:x:12001:
web10_anonftp:x:12010:
web9_anonftp:x:12009:
web11_anonftp:x:12011:
web12_anonftp:x:12012:
[root@wrl ~]#

tnx
nikolis

 

I'm sorry, the command is

Code:

grep anonftp /etc/passwd

 

That's Better.

[root@wrl ~]# grep anonftp /etc/passwd
web9_anonftp:x:12009:12009::/var/www/web9/ftp:/bin/false
[root@wrl ~]#
tnx.

 

You only have web9_anonftp in /etc/passwd? What about web12_anonftp, etc.?

 

I have manualy removed the web12 and any other i have created whille testing and i left only the web9_anonftp .i dont need the others for the time beeng. I wanna focus on one anonymus user account and thats the web9.
Still same problem , user web9_nikolis password protected is working but anonymus is not.

Tnx
n1kol1s

 

No no errors at all...
Before i removed the other anonymus ftp accounts I untick the anonymus ftp related box from each unwanted accounts.
Tnx
nikolis

 

How did you remove them? By editing the MySQL databse, or on the shell?

 

I vi from shell /etc/passwd and remove them. im not touchinf mysql..too scared . lol
nikolis

 

Did it work before you did this?

 

never worked m8....
i reinstall the perfect setup fc5 a couple of times before and even then i had the same problem. everything else is working llike a dream.
tnx
nikolis

 

Then I have no idea what's wrong...

 

ohhh....ok . Thanks for your help anyway. much arpeciated...
Ill download another copy of fc5 and reinstall the lot.
is there a unantended ks file with all the perfect fedora core 5 32bit setup settings?
tnx
nikolis

 

What's a ks file?

 

Something like this...i bet you seen this before...lol

# Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda.

install
cdrom
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
xconfig --driver "sis" --videoram 16384 --resolution 800x600 --depth 16
monitor --hsync 31.5-37.9 --vsync 50-70
network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --hostname your.domain.name
rootpw --iscrypted $yourincryptedpassword.
firewall --disabled
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
selinux --disabled
timezone Australia/Melbourne
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda,sdb
# The following is the partition information you requested
# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
# not guaranteed to work
clearpart --all --drives=sda,sdb
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=sda
part pv.7 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sda
part pv.8 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sdb
volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.7 pv.8
logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 --grow
logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=896 --grow --maxsize=1792

%packages
@admin-tools
@base
@core
@development-libs
@development-tools
@dns-server
@editors
@ftp-server
@java
@mail-server
@mysql
@server-cfg
@system-tools
@text-internet
@web-server
comps-extras
cracklib-dicts
gnome-mime-data
rmt
tzdata


%post

 

No, sorry. I'm a Debian guy...
Where's that file located on your server?

 

in the root directory called anaconda-ks.cfg .
And if i remember corecly when you boot from the fc cd you type linux ks=the path of the ks file e.g. floppy cd web usb key.
nikolis

 

My two cent's worth...

I don't know if this will help, but I was having the same issue until I saw falko talking about /etc/passwd and /etc/group; when I looked there myself I noticed that for whatever reason I had no anonftp users in /etc/passwd, and in /etc/group all I had was this:

Code:

web1_anonftp:x:12001:

I changed the above line to:

Code:

web1_anonftp:x:12001:admispconfig,web1_anonftp

and added the following to /etc/passwd:

Code:

web1_anonftp:x:12001:10001:JFI Anonymous User:/var/www/web1/ftp:/bin/false

One thing to note: I added the line to /etc/passwd first, tried it, and failed before I checked /etc/group (I'm bull-headed like that sometimes), and though I saw falko make references to /etc/group there was no response from n1kol1s to that effect, so I would say definitely check /etc/group!

Sorry if I'm out of line for sticking my nose in. I now return you to your average life...