Re: RedHat ES3.0--I will pay

Are you building using configure ?

This appears to support --disable-pam and --enable-shadow options, to
disable PAM and support alternative passwd/shadow files, respectively.

Cheers, Bob

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:12:53AM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> Some success!  Was able to use strace (debug mode for ftpd and xinetd
> did not help) to find out where the problem was...now need to figure out
> how to fix it.
> 
> On RedHat ES3, because it uses xinetd, here's how you have to configure
> xinetd to use strace:
> 
>   xinetd uses the files in /etc/xinetd.d to start services such as ftp.
> In the file in that directory, it calls the ftp program.  However, you
> can't put strace in there cuz it only wants one argument.  So, I created
> a script that calls strace that in turn runs ftpd which gave a great
> debug file: /usr/bin/strace -vf -o outputfile /usr/sbin/ftpd -a.
> 
> What I've found is that after entering the passwd, ftpd looks to
> /etc/pam.d (which it finds) then to /etc/pam.d/ftp (which it doesn't
> find).  Then it looks to /etc/pam.d/other, which it finds.  Then, it
> looks up some pam libraries, ends on /lib/security/pam_deny.so and
> finally sends a login incorrect to the client.
> 
> Question is, how do I make it NOT use pam and use shadow?  I compiled
> this ftp like I did all the others on Suse and Solaris, and they worked
> fine...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory Hicks [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 10:13 AM
> To: [email protected]; Thompson, Victor E
> Subject: Re: RedHat ES3.0--I will pay
> 
> 
> > Subject: RedHat ES3.0--I will pay
> > Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 08:49:25 -0700
> > From: <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > 
> > For someone's service if they can provide assistance to get my guest 
> > users working.  The exact same ftpaccess and configuration (of course 
> > I compiled ftpd on this box) works fine on Suse 9, and Solaris 8.
> > anonymous user works great, gets the proper banner, everything works.
> > The guest user, no matter what I do, will not logon:
> 
> What kind of shell does the guest user have?  Is it listed in
> /etc/shells?
> 
> > 
> > Y:\>ftp bosftp1
> > Connected to bosftp1.bc.com.
> > 220 Boise FTP server ready.
> > User (bosftp1.bc.com:(none)): xxxxx
> > 331 Password required for xxxxx.
> > Password:
> > 530 Login incorrect.
> > Login failed.
> > ftp>
> > 
> > Has ANYONE got guest users to work on ES3.0?
> 
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> 
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> 

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Bob Luckin      [email protected]      "Coder, adapt; FTP Ada, redo C"