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My FTPD won't work. I installed wu-ftpd-2.6.0-1 and also anonftp-2.8-1
in RetHat 6.0.
It just won't work!

At every attempt to ftp into the box from anywhere (e.g. local box) and
for every user I get: (in /var/log/messages)

Mar  8 22:27:01 shynergy ftpd[5402]: cannot open pid file
/var/run/ftp.pids-all: No such file or directory
Mar  8 22:27:01 shynergy ftpd[5402]: cannot open pid file
/var/run/ftp.pids-all: No such file or directory
Mar  8 22:27:04 shynergy ftpd[5402]: PAM _pam_init_handlers: could not
open /etc/pam.conf
Mar  8 22:27:04 shynergy ftpd[5402]: PAM pam_start: failed to initialize
handlers
Mar  8 22:27:04 shynergy ftpd[5402]: PAM pam_set_item: NULL pam handle
passed
Mar  8 22:27:04 shynergy ftpd[5402]: PAM pam_end: NULL pam handle passed

Mar  8 22:27:04 shynergy ftpd[5402]: failed login from 208.251.80.60
[208.251.80.60]
Mar  8 22:27:04 shynergy ftpd[5402]: cannot open pid file
/var/run/ftp.pids-all: No such file or directory

That's a lot of errors.... I tried uninstalling, re-installing,  even
upgraded to pam-0.68-10, NO CHANGE!

This seems bizarre because everywhere I look it says that /etc/pam.conf
is not necessary with recent PAM's?! Also, the file
/var/run/ftp.pids-all didn't exist, I created it, even made it
world-read/writable (...): STILL no change!

Telnet, login etc. work just fine and do not generate any authentication
messages, so I assume PAM is working. So what on earth is going on?

More info:
#### /etc/pam.d/ftp:
#%PAM-1.0
auth       required     /lib/security/pam_listfile.so item=user
sense=deny file=/etc/ftpusers onerr=succeed
auth       required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok
auth       required     /lib/security/pam_shells.so
account    required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
session    required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so

#### ftpd in inetd.conf:
    ftp  stream   tcp   nowait   root  /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a
-r/home/ftp

I guess that in Windows NT, I'd just have reinstalled the entire OS by
now, but....

 I'd love to play with the source but I just don't have the time. Thanks
for any pointers.

Ody.

BTW: Is it necessary to stop inetd before upgrading/installing daemons
started in inetd?