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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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?
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
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?
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