Wednesday, August 31, 2011

pure-ftpd says: "Authentication failed" with Unix Auth

A little detail when configuring pure-ftpd with unix authentication. Be sure that all shells your users use are defined in /etc/shells file. If not, ftp server returns authentication failed, a very explicit description, lol.

Greetings
Oscar




3 comments:

  1. Hi!
    After two hours Google searching I found your solution and it did the trick. THX!

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  2. Oh my God ... Who would have thought that the problem in this... Thank you very much.

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