Ftp [Archived]

[bionik]

Hi I am running Redhat9 and am getting the following when trying to ftp into my box.
Connected to thisserver

220 Servername FTP server (Version 5.60) ready.
User (thisserver:(none)): bionik
530 Must perform authentication before identifying USER.
Login failed.
ftp>

It was working before, but after I updated my system I started getting this error. Ive tried restarting xinetd and vsftpd but no luck, I checked /var/log/messages but dont see anything about this error. Please help. Thanks

[DMR]

Welcome to JustLinux, bionik! :)

Sounds like a problem with the way you're implementing encryption (or the fact that you are implementing encryption) on the FTP server.

Does the information in this thread (http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Linux/Linux_Setup/Q_20632298.html) shed any light? If not, the results of this Google search (http://www.google.com/search?q=%22FTP+server+(Version+5.60)+ready%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=30&sa=N) have many suggestions.

[bionik]

Thanks, I found out what the problem was. I had gssftp running at the same time as vsftpd. I just disabled gssftp from the services and it works fine now.

[DMR]

Right- that was it. gssftp is "Kerberized", which means that it uses a Kerberos authentication scheme. Client machines not properly configured for Kerberos would get the authentication error.

Glad it worked for you. :)