Hi Jason, thanks for the response. OK - here's the scoop.
*** I GOT IT WORKING with domain authentication *** After doing an strace, I found that proftpd could not validate a home directory via UNC conventions. In the domain enviroment I'm working on, the domain account I'm using for testing has it's *home* directory on a network shared resource - and mkpasswd -d -u loginname created an entry with the home directory set to //servername/users/loginname. proftpd could *not* validate this and therefore exited without attempting any further authentication. Once I changed the home directory setting in passwd to /home/loginname the domain login succeeded. On a further note, I was able to get the SYSTEM id working for proftpd. Turns out proftpd is HYPER sensitve to the permissions-owner-group settings for the /var directory tree. I resolved this by doing chown -R SYSTEM:Administrators /var That essentially fixed it. Futhermore, it was *not* necessary to have to provide any further user rights to the SYSTEM id. It is working in "inetd" mode. Brian Kelly "Jason Tishler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@cygwin.com on 08/11/2003 07:10:45 AM Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Brian Kelly/WTC1/Empire) Subject: Re: proftpd issues Brian, On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 09:12:57AM -0400, Brian Kelly wrote: > I'm sorry Igor, I'm not giving you enough info. proftpd is being > called from xinetd which itself is being launched via init. *telnet* > works fine and authenticates BOTH local and domain ID's. So that > *should* - correct me if I'm wrong - eliminate the passwd and group > file entries as culprits. Especially since I'm using the very same > domain ID for my testing. Does /var/log/ProFTPD.log indicated anything interesting when authentication fails. Can you strace the problem? What happens when you run proftpd in stand-alone mode -- not under xinetd? > Furthermore, if I change the ftp daemon to the one supplied with > inetutils, Domain authentication works again. FWIW, the authentication code in proftpd was copied from inetutils's ftpd. Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ "WellChoice, Inc." made the following annotations on 08/11/2003 09:45:14 AM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Attention! This electronic message contains information that may be legally confidential and/or privileged. The information is intended solely for the individual or entity named above and access by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. Release/Disclosure Statement -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/