Scott,

Your psa-proftpd package for F7 breaks logins:

331 Password required for aussiefrogs
Password:
530 Login incorrect.
Login failed.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.

I tried reinstalling:

[root@server ~]# yum reinstall psa-proftpd
Setting up Reinstall Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package psa-proftpd.i386 0:1.3.2a-1.fc7.art set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Reinstalling:
psa-proftpd i386 1.3.2a-1.fc7.art asl-2.0 1.9 M

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Remove 0 Package(s)
Reinstall 1 Package(s)
Downgrade 0 Package(s)

Still the same.

Rolled back and ftp logins work:

[root@server ~]# rpm -Uvh --oldpackage psa-proftpd-1.3.2-12.fc7.art.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:psa-proftpd ########################################### [100%]
[root@server ~]# /etc/init.d/xinetd restart
Stopping xinetd: [ OK ]
Starting xinetd: [ OK ]
[root@server ~]# ftp
ftp> open ftp.xx.com
Connected to ftp.xx.com (208.109.243.230).
220 ProFTPD 1.3.2 Server (ProFTPD) [208.109.243.230]
Name (ftp.axx.com:root): xx
331 Password required for xx
Password:
230 User xx logged in
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> close
221 Goodbye.
ftp> bye

Any idea's why authentication fails on the updated psa-proftpd?

Submitted as Number: 1557

I know this doesn't solve your problem, but Fedora 7 is unsupported as this OS release has reached end of life (since mid 2008, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/End_of_life). At the moment Fedora 10 is the only version of Fedora that's supported by ASL.

I recommend going with CentOS instead of Fedora, because of its much longer lifecycle (7 years of updates instead of ~1 year).

Thank you for the report David. We don't support FC7 anymore. We do put out rpms as a courtesy, but we definitely don't support it. Best guess is that its an issue with PAM on fc7.

Hi Mike,

Ah found it thanks for the tip.

Can you include this for Fedora builds as PAM is different and causes issues.

Package /etc/pamd.d/proftpd

#%PAM-1.0
auth required pam_listfile.so item=user sense=deny file=/etc/ftpusers onerr=succeed
auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
auth required pam_shells.so
account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth


Correct /etc/pam.d/proftpd for Fedora

#%PAM-1.0
session optional pam_keyinit.so force revoke
auth required pam_listfile.so item=user sense=deny file=/etc/ftpusers onerr=succeed
auth required pam_shells.so
auth include system-auth
account include system-auth
# Comment the following line if you are having PAM issues with chrooted users
#session include system-auth
session required pam_loginuid.so