Unable to login via FTP

[Koodari]

I just needed the FTP server the first time, a friend should move some files over, but for some reason I am unable to login even though I get to the login prompt. :confused:

The network is working. Apache is working. I have a static IP, no routing or NAT. I even took the firewall off just to be sure. I tried the "real" username, and even the OS X "full" username. I tried with my own username, and a user I created specifically for FTP use. I tried to login with FreeBSD's FTP client, and with Windows Internet Explorer, obviously from two different boxes, both of which have static IP's and have functional networking. I have made no special configuration, tinkered with Netinfo or any configuration files.

Oh yeah. It just says "530 Login Incorrect / ftp: login failed". I also tried only inputting the first eight characters of the password, since I faintly recall that some systems only care about the first eight. No change.

[Koodari]

Other people's FTP serving seems to be broken as well.

http://www.latext.com/pm/comments/A1101_0_1_0_C/

I think I'll manage with SFTP, but if anyone knows anything about this problem, I'd be glad to hear about it. Even if it's just that you *are* able to run FTP server in 10.3.

[staph]

FTP works just fine for me on my fully up-to-date iBook. I long since replaced the FTP server on my Powermac, so I can't comment on that machine.

Have you tried telnetting in to the FTP server to do some more fine-grained debugging, or reading the logs? Telnetting in will drop you to a command line with the FTP server; you'll want to try to log in with the commands "user [username]" and "pass [password]".

[Koodari]

I tried telnetting to port 20 (no answer), to port 21 (same "530" result as with the FTP client after I input the user and password).

I did a 'man ftpd', it told me ftp access logs go to /var/log/wtmp, but that is a binary file and I have trouble making sense of it. 'man wtmp' tells me the format of the logfile, but doesn't point to a program that would produce the full text output. 'strings /var/log/wtmp' doesn't show the FTP login attempts, only the local logins.

Needless to say, I'm pretty new to this admin-type stuff. I have only used Unix for programming.

[Gargoyle]

The command you are looking for is 'last'. It tells you the last login's, ftp and shell.

[staph]

To find your FTP log/s:

Open Console.app (in /Applications/Utilities), click the "Logs" button in the button-bar thingy up the top, hit the disclose triangle next to /var/log, and you'll find it about 5th down.

xinetd throws its errors to system.log (also in Console.app), so it might be worth keeping an eye on that), and also on the ftpd crash log (under /Library/Logs, CrashReporter)

It sounds like something is going weirdly wrong with authentication, and frankly, I'm not sure what would be causing it.

[Koodari]

I followed your instructions, looked at the ftp logs and system logins. The system logins don't show the ftp login attempts, and the ftp logs just show "connection from (host)" and then "FTP LOGIN FAILED FROM (host)".

[Koodari]

system.log says:

Sep 19 18:17:37 (hostname) xinetd[350]: service ftp, IPV6_ADDRFORM setsockopt() failed: Protocol not available (errno = 42)

[DMBand0026]

Simple answer: Sucks to be you because FTP in the finder sucks donkey balls. Actually, the whole finder sucks donkey balls.

Complicated answer: Sucks to be you, and what they said.

[Koodari]

Simple answer: Sucks to be you because FTP in the finder sucks donkey balls. Actually, the whole finder sucks donkey balls.Agreed about the Finder's quality, but as far as I know, the Finder is just a client and doesn't have anything to do with the FTP *server*.

[DMBand0026]

You may be right, I'm not really sure. I just got mad at the finder this morning when I was actually trying to get some work done...however, it didn't really think I wanted to, so it went about it's business while I held a gun to its head in a cold sweat :)

Point is...sorry I got mad and it got taken out on you ;)

But it still sucks to be you ;)