Re: [Proftpd-user] ProFTPd - virtual users + single ftp location

> Corrected the config file to this:
>
> DefaultRoot /srv/ftp
> RequireValidShell off
> AuthPAM off
> AuthUserFile /etc/proftpd/ftpd.passwd
> AuthGroupFile /etc/proftpd/ftpd.group 
>
>> Here, you are creating an AuthUserFile, using the `ftpassswd` utility, located at '/etc/proftpd/conf.d/ftpd.passwd'.  However, above you have configured AuthUserFile to point to '/etc/proftpd/ftpd.passwd', which is a different path.  Which is correct?

> Good catch! I found duplicates. Now I have deleted the ftpd.passwd and 
> ftpd.group files inside /etc/proftpd. I will only be using the 
> ftpd.passwd and ftpd.group inside /etc/proftpd/conf.d

Hmm.  I would recommend keeping '/etc/proftpd/ftpd.passwd' and '/etc/proftpd/ftpd.group', to match your configuration:

  AuthUserFile /etc/proftpd/ftpd.passwd
  AuthGroupFile /etc/proftpd/ftpd.group 

and removing the copies in '/etc/proftpd/conf.d/'.  Why?  Because of this line, at the bottom of the default '/etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf' file installed by the "proftpd-core" package:

  # Include other custom configuration files
  # !! Please note, that this statement will read /all/ file from this subdir,
  # i.e. backup files created by your editor, too !!!
  # Eventually create file patterns like this: /etc/proftpd/conf.d/*.conf
  # 
  Include /etc/proftpd/conf.d/

I suspect that this Include -- which says to read all files in '/etc/proftpd/conf.d/' as if they each contained more ProFTPD configuration directives -- is the source of this reported behavior:

  > Starting up gives me the following errors:"fatal: unknown configuration 
  > directive" followed by the first line in the virtual users password file 
  > (/etc/proftpd/ftpd.passwd).

Hope this helps,
TJ


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