[Proftpd-devel] Authentication

[TJ Saunders]

2) in an other window I try to login with a user which is not listed
in PFTEST.passwd file, because I guess proftpd check the existence of this
particular user in /etc/passwd as well.

See:

http://www.proftpd.org/docs/howto/Authentication.html

It mentions the AuthOrder directive, which is what you're looking for.

TJ

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[TJ Saunders]

However I added to /tmp/PFTEST/PFTEST.conf the following line (but it did
not have any effect)
AuthOrder mod_auth_unix.c
Still the logon with a user from /etc/passwd fails.

Now you need to check the proftpd debug logging to find out why:

http://www.proftpd.org/docs/howto/Debugging.html

TJ

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