Hello, I use winscp for 99% of my ftp as a client. I can connect to my ispconfig3 box (centOS 6.4) fine as root but as a user defined in ispconfig3 no luck. Any ideas? is this a pure-ftp.conf issue? I have heard that some other users have uninstalled pure-ftp and replaced with an alternate. Please advise. Thanks, Art
Hi Do you use the correct user name for ftp login attempt? I mean to say that if you created the user c1user then the ftp user becomes defaultc1user You can check the logs at logs in /var/log/, espacially syslog, mesages and pur-ftpd log. We recommend the best comaptibility with ISPConfig, so we recommend the pureftp as the ftp for our ISPConfig servers Br// Srijan
Have exact the same problem root will login clients not Code: Mar 31 09:57:54 xxx pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [INFO] New connection from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Mar 31 09:57:54 xxx pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [INFO] PAM_RHOST enabled. Getting the peer address Mar 31 09:57:59 xxx pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [WARNING] Authentication failed for user [xxxxxx] M i know 100% that the user and password are correct
Hi Give a try, create a new test user through ISPConfig web-interface & consider it ftp_user1, use filezilla as ftp-client then connect to the ftp through username=defaultftp_user1 & your ftp password. Crosscheck the integrity for the same. Br// Srijan
Winscp is mainly a scp client, so you connect by ssh and not by FTP. Thats why you are able to connect with the root ssh user but not with an FTP account. To conect by ftp, use a ftp client like filezilla. Then use the full ftp username inkl. prefix like it is displayed in the ftp user list in ispconfig to connect to your server.
Don't know if it is of any help, but, I discovered that winscp could not handle some special characters correctly. In my case I used a password including swedish special characters and was denied login with winscp. Command line login from linux terminal with same swedish characters worked as a charm. Changed pwd to alphanumeric instead, winscp logged in no problem! Can you login with a simple pwd? //millpark10 (I Tried both ssh and ftp, discovered the problem with special characters only apply to ssh!)
Thanks for your reply! I login fine with root and the other accounts do not use anything fancy, just regular characters and upper/lower combination and numbers only. That said I have seen other posts that say they have issues with WINSCP and not being able to login at all. Any other suggestions welcome. It is the ftp user accounts created with ISPCONFIG3 that don't work. root does work! I think I should probably try another secure FTP client maybe. Art
I explained already above why root works but not FTP accounts. You are currently connecting to SSH and not FTP as winscp is a scp client (SSH based file transfers), root is a ssh user and not a ftp user. A ftp server would never let you connect as root, is absolutely clear that you connect to ssh at the moment. Please try another FTP client like I suggested.
Duh! Thanks Till! Sometimes I over think things. Mostly I just put stuff up quick on the local segment as root and rarely does anyone need to actually FTP. I used WINSCP but just checked FTP protocol this time. I should have done that before and feel like a fool. You da man! Thanks! Art
Till, also, so sorry, I didn't see that you responded and only noticed "MillPark" before. I'm getting blind too I guess! Tough to get old man. Thanks again! Art
