I'm also having this problem. I think its a PAM problem.
I wasn't able to fix it. I thing I'll read then man-pages
again and again and agin ............
/var/log/auth.log says: -----------------------------
Oct 20 07:51:07 ratte PAM-ftp[791]: conversation failure [Conversation is
waiting for event]
Oct 20 07:51:08 ratte PAM_unix[791]: auth could not identify password for
[bernhard]
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/etc/ftpusers ---------------
# /etc/ftpusers: list of users disallowed ftp access.
See ftpusers(5).
root
daemon
bin
sys
sync
games
man
lp
mail
news
uucp
nobody
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/etc/pam.d/ftp ---------------------------------
# Standard behaviour for ftpd(8).
auth required pam_listfile.so item=user
sense=deny file=/etc/ftpusers
onerr=succeed
# This line is required by ftpd(8).
auth sufficient pam_ftp.so
# Uncomment this to achieve what used to be ftpd -A.
#auth required pam_listfile.so item=user
sense=allow
file=/etc/ftpchroot onerr=fail
# Standard blurb.
auth required pam_unix_auth.so shadow nullok
use_first_pass
auth required pam_shells.so
account required pam_unix_acct.so
session required pam_unix_session.so
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/etc/ftpchroot is existing but empty
Bernhard
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