Pure-ftp virtual users cannot login

**oliver369** · February 24th, 2009

Hi there,

I am trying to set up an FTP server which only offers access to virtual users.

The set-up I have is very straight forward:

Installed Ubuntu 8.10
Installed PureAdmin from the Add/Remove Applications
Added a virtual user by the name of 'testftp' from the Pure Admin

If I try to log in to the FTP server with the virtual user 'testftp' I get 530 Login authentication failed.

If I try to login with my system account it logs in correctly and I see my home directory.

What I need to be able to define is that Pure FTP only uses virtual users and not system accounts.

How can configure this?

**Eeqmcsq** · May 31st, 2009

I can answer half your problem. I tested this using the GUI app "pureadmin" in Xubuntu 9.04. Where I use mousepad for the text editor, you can use gedit in Ubuntu.

You will need to create this soft link to tell pure-ftp to include virtual user authentication:

Code:

sudo ln -s /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/PureDB /etc/pure-ftpd/auth/50pure

Now, restart the ftp server and try your virtual user. The next problem you might run into will be this error: "530 Sorry, but I can't trust you". This error is caused by your virtual user's userID and groupID being too low. The minimum allowed ID number is defined in /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/MinUID, which you can read in any text editor. The default is 1000.

You can either change the virtual user's userID and groupID to a user and/or group that's higher than 1000, or you can lower the limit. To lower the limit, you can edit the text file and change the number:

Code:

sudo mousepad /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/MinUID

Now, restart the ftp server and your virtual users should now be able to log in.

As for disabling logging in with the system accounts, I couldn't figure out that answer.

**Sapnix** · July 5th, 2009

thx worked on 8.04 didn't on 9.04

**deebocean** · September 28th, 2009

after "as Eeqmcsq said"

Code:

sudo ln -s /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/PureDB /etc/pure-ftpd/auth/50pure

you may try "to change "1000" to a lower number:

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/MinUID

or to choose a linux user from pureadmin

Code:

Applications --> System Tool --> PureAdmin --> PureFtpd --> Manage Users --> "choose one of created virtual users" --> Edit user --> from the right column choose user and group of a user with ID min (1000).

you may want to create a new user for this purpose before configuring the PureAdmin.

Code:

sudo adduser ftpuser1

that worked for me.

**glacoon** · November 10th, 2009

Hello,

I had the same 530 error on my side with pure-ftp and pureadmin installation (on Kubuntu Karmic).

I changed three things to make it work:

1/ I used PureAdmin to create the virtual users, and by default the paths to the config files where different from the ones created by pure-pw command (/etc/pureftpd.pdb and /etc/pureftpd.passwd instead of /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb and /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.passwd) => To change this, I used the option to search automatically for these files in the 3rd settings tab of PureAdmin)

2/ The /etc/pure-ftpd/conf folder was empty after my installation, I had to create the file about virtual users: I created the /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/PureDB file containing the single line /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb

3/ Finally, as said above:

Code:

sudo ln -s /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/PureDB /etc/pure-ftpd/auth/50pure

**Hugo de la cruz** · November 10th, 2010

ok it work i follow the howto from this link http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-91052.html

and add the code

sudo ln -s /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/PureDB /etc/pure-ftpd/auth/50pure

and it work on ubuntu 10.10 niceeeee