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Deemo
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by Deemo » Tue Feb 24, 2004 7:50 pm
i have set up a vsFTP server that came with my Red Hat 9.0 machine, and i am confused now, because whenever i try to connect to it, it says:
530 Must Perform Authentication before identifying USER
i have no idea what it means as i am a newbie at FTP servers. please tell me what this means and what i can do to fix it
thanks
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by Deemo » Tue Mar 02, 2004 1:45 pm
BUMP
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by Roja » Tue Mar 02, 2004 2:21 pm
Depends on how you are attempting to connect and login.
It may be that you are (without trying to) connecting anonymously, which is disabled, and thats the error message.
Try using a client that allows you to specifically set a username/password before connecting, and try that way.
If thats what you are doing, THEN SAY SO! You aren't giving much information in your post - what ftp client are you using to connect, etc.
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by ol4pr0 » Tue Mar 02, 2004 2:38 pm
Show a part of the connecting ...
( you can take out ip / port info
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by Deemo » Tue Mar 02, 2004 2:55 pm
well, i know i am not connecting annonamously, because i specified the password
i have tried it on windows by adding a network place
and on my linux computer which the server itself is running on! using the ftp in the terminal AND gftp
all those allow me to use user name and password
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by ol4pr0 » Tue Mar 02, 2004 3:02 pm
Did /var/log/messages say anything ?
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by Deemo » Tue Mar 02, 2004 3:26 pm
nope
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by ol4pr0 » Tue Mar 02, 2004 5:49 pm
Did you use a rpm or src ?
if rpm i suggest you start from scratch with a src...
Since you dont have any error logs i dont have a clue on what went wrong.
however youre 530 message: normally suggest that something is wrong with the login / password information
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by redhair » Tue Mar 02, 2004 6:30 pm
When I encounter a error message that get's me confused, I paste it in
Google
I'ts just a tip.
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by Deemo » Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:03 pm
well, i gave up on vsFTP, i installed something else
thanks for the help though
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by Pyrite » Fri Mar 05, 2004 1:19 am
Damn, too late, but ok. You probably don't have PAM setup, so you could have edited your /etc/vsftp.conf and turned off PAM authentication. But you went to something else ...