[PLUG] vsftpd login problems

[Larry Brigman]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:02:33 -0800, Derek Loree <drl at drloree.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 09:55 -0800, Josh Orchard wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> More frustrating than scary, all OS's could ssh to the 2.6 kernel, and
> both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels could hook to the ftp server, but none of
> Bill's OS's could login to the ftp server (I tried several).
> 
> I changed back to a 2.4 kernel and Bill's OS's started behaving.
> 
> I didn't investigate any further, my client was willing to run the 2.4
> kernel.
> 

I had a similar experience with 2.6.9.  An C++ network application
that I wrote was
working on 2.4.20+ and 2.6.8 but not on 2.6.9.  Same code, same compiler.
The customer decided it was not worth the trouble to figure out why it didn't
work and went back to a 2.4.26 kernel.