[PLUG] vsftpd login problems

Josh Orchard josh at emediatedesigns.com
Fri Jan 21 17:55:33 UTC 2005


> On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 16:16 -0800, Josh Orchard wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>> I have a client who can not ftp to my server.  I'm using vsftpd and
>> I
>> turned on the protocol logging but after he his prompted for a user
>> and that returns successful my logs say he is sent the password
>> prompt then it says he timesout.
>>
>> He reports to me the same behavior.  Any thoughts?  I have tried
>> the same user/server and such from many different host and ftp
>> clients and they all worked.  He is using WS_FTP Pro, Version 8.03.
>> I've tried
>> and older version of ws_ftp and that worked both passive and not.
>
> Is your server by chance running a 2.6 kernel?  I had a similar
> problem, changed to a 2.4 kernel and everything started working.
>
> Good Luck,
>

Well that is scary.  I have him working now.  Still wonder about this
2.6 kernel issue though.

Josh



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