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ProFTPd Configuration & Login via FTP (failed)!
- Posted July 10, 2014
Hi,
I have deployed Ubuntu 14.04 droplet and installed ProFTPd. I followed this guide and tried logging in with my credentials. All seems to go well till FileZilla says: 227 Entering Passive Mode (IP address) … MLSD …: Then the connection times out. Tried to login a few times but cant get-in. Seems like I’m missing some configuration but don’t know what!
Can anyone help?
– Regards Saurabh.
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Hi,
I changed some other settings (added directory syntax in proftpd.conf). Now I’m not getting any MLSD error but now my directory listing fails. See what FTP says:
Command: USER ftpadmin Response: 331 Password required for ftpadmin Command: PASS ******** Response: 230 User ftpadmin logged in Command: SYST Response: 215 UNIX Type: L8 Command: FEAT Response: 211-Features: Response: SITE UTIME Response: MDTM Response: SITE RMDIR Response: TVFS Response: SITE COPY Response: MFMT Response: SIZE Response: LANG en-US.UTF-8;en-US* Response: SITE MKDIR Response: MFF modify;UNIX.group;UNIX.mode; Response: REST STREAM Response: MLST modify*;perm*;size*;type*;unique*;UNIX.group*;UNIX.mode*;UNIX.owner*; Response: UTF8 Response: EPRT Response: SITE SYMLINK Response: EPSV Response: 211 End Command: OPTS UTF8 ON Response: 200 UTF8 set to on Status: Connected Status: Retrieving directory listing… Command: PWD Response: 257 “/” is the current directory Command: TYPE I Response: 200 Type set to I Command: PORT 59,180,165,211,26,61 Response: 500 Illegal PORT command Error: Failed to retrieve directory listing
Hi Kamal
I checked the log and it seems no shell was defined for the ftpuser. I tried adding the user to /bin/bash (I’m not sure if this is the correct entry) but even now I’m not able to login.
As there is no Firewall installed to there is nothing to allow. I tried active mode but couldn’t succeed. After adding shell (bash) I could go till “200 MLSD” where it times out.
What next is to be checked? Should I post my proftpd conf file here?
Hi Kamal,
Yes I was using UFW and trying to login through FileZilla. I don’t know how to us active mode :( Although I had UFW installed but allowed FTP Port. (ufw allow 21/tcp)
Now I tried fresh install without installing UFW but even now it is not working. However, now the error has changed to “530 Login Incorrect”. I’m using correct password. I included my user into proftpd.conf and the group as well. But not working!
– Regards Saurabh
It looks like there’s a firewall blocking Passive connections. Try using Active mode instead, does that work? Are you using UFW or just plain IPTables?