Hello. I'm struggling with connecting to just created ftp-account. I've created several accounts and none of them work, it keeps saying authentification failed in FileZilla. I can connect only from root. I'm using Debian 7 and I have no idea what's wrong. Do you guys know a way how to solve this mystery? Thanks.
You can never connect with root by FTP, so my guess is that you accidently use SFTP (which is SSH and not FTP and allows root connections) instead of FTP. Ensure that you use FTP or FTPS but not SFTP in FileZilla.
If you are using a OpenVZ container then you will have problems with FTP setup (since it was invented before Adam.) You could try adding more permissions to your container but that requires access to the host server.
OpenVZ is not a problem anymore as Debian changed the compile options that caused the error some time ago (I guess 2-3 years?). So pure-ftpd works fine now on Debian 7 and 8 inside OpenVZ.
Sorry to wake up such an old thread, but I too face this issue and is not resolved by doing whatsoever Any guidance in this regard would be appreciated
