From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; (R1 1.3)) Description of problem: Unable to use the ftp services because of repeated login failures due to unknown user. The /etc/nsswitch.conf file is configure to use NIS as it reference. pam 0.75-46.7.2 is installed and the services is configured correctly under xinetd. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.attempt to use ftp service to connect with the box 2. ask for user or default users 3. ask for password 4. failure to authenticate users as it should Actual Results: login failure Expected Results: authenticated users Additional info:
This is the log entry that is filling my log every ten minutes. Apr 8 06:47:07 lisa ftpd[14694]: FTP session closed Apr 8 06:57:00 lisa telnetd[14701]: ttloop: peer died: EOF Apr 8 06:57:00 lisa ftpd[14702]: FTP session closed Apr 8 07:06:53 lisa telnetd[14710]: ttloop: peer died: EOF Apr 8 07:06:53 lisa ftpd[14711]: FTP session closed Apr 8 07:16:46 lisa telnetd[14717]: ttloop: peer died: EOF Apr 8 07:16:46 lisa ftpd[14718]: FTP session closed Apr 8 07:26:40 lisa telnetd[14725]: ttloop: peer died: EOF Apr 8 07:26:40 lisa ftpd[14726]: FTP session closed Apr 8 07:36:34 lisa telnetd[14731]: ttloop: peer died: EOF Apr 8 07:36:34 lisa ftpd[14732]: FTP session closed Apr 8 07:46:27 lisa telnetd[14739]: ttloop: peer died: EOF Apr 8 07:46:27 lisa ftpd[14740]: FTP session closed Apr 8 07:56:20 lisa telnetd[14747]: ttloop: peer died: EOF Apr 8 07:56:20 lisa ftpd[14748]: FTP session closed Apr 8 08:06:14 lisa telnetd[14756]: ttloop: peer died: EOF Apr 8 08:06:14 lisa ftpd[14757]: FTP session closed Apr 8 08:16:07 lisa telnetd[14763]: ttloop: peer died: EOF Apr 8 08:16:07 lisa ftpd[14764]: FTP session closed Apr 8 08:25:59 lisa telnetd[14771]: ttloop: peer died: EOF Apr 8 08:25:59 lisa ftpd[14772]: FTP session closed Apr 8 08:35:52 lisa telnetd[14778]: ttloop: peer died: EOF Apr 8 08:35:52 lisa ftpd[14779]: FTP session closed Apr 8 08:45:47 lisa telnetd[14785]: ttloop: peer died: EOF Apr 8 08:45:47 lisa ftpd[14786]: FTP session closed Apr 8 08:55:41 lisa telnetd[14794]: ttloop: peer died: EOF Apr 8 08:55:41 lisa ftpd[14795]: FTP session closed Apr 8 09:05:36 lisa telnetd[14803]: ttloop: peer died: EOF Apr 8 09:05:36 lisa ftpd[14804]: FTP session closed Apr 8 09:15:29 lisa telnetd[14810]: ttloop: peer died: EOF Apr 8 09:15:30 lisa ftpd[14811]: FTP session closed Apr 8 09:25:23 lisa telnetd[14818]: ttloop: peer died: EOF Apr 8 09:25:23 lisa ftpd[14819]: FTP session closed Apr 8 09:36:14 lisa telnetd[14825]: ttloop: peer died: EOF Apr 8 09:36:14 lisa ftpd[14826]: FTP session closed Apr 8 09:46:07 lisa telnetd[14833]: ttloop: peer died: EOF Apr 8 09:46:07 lisa ftpd[14834]: FTP session closed Apr 8 09:56:03 lisa telnetd[14841]: ttloop: peer died: EOF Apr 8 09:56:03 lisa ftpd[14842]: FTP session closed Apr 8 10:05:47 lisa telnetd[14850]: ttloop: peer died: EOF Apr 8 10:05:47 lisa ftpd[14851]: FTP session closed Apr 8 10:12:58 lisa automount[14857]: expired /home/antoniog Apr 8 10:15:41 lisa telnetd[14859]: ttloop: peer died: EOF Apr 8 10:15:41 lisa ftpd[14860]: FTP session closed
Please use vsftpd instead. wu-ftpd is not maintained anymore.