On Thu, 2025-07-10 at 12:55 +0200, [email protected] wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 12:45:22PM +0200, hw wrote: > > > > Right. Anonymous logins are allowed and I have created a system account > > 'ftp', and it still doesn't work. It keeps asking for a password when > > trying to log in as 'anonymous' or 'ftp'. > > > > I have the same on Fedora, and there it does not ask for a password when > > trying to log in as 'anonymous', and it just works fine. > > > > This must be some kind of weird Debian issue. Why does it keep asking > > for a password? > > I'd have a look at /var/log/auth.log, or however this is spelt in > systemd-ese these days.
The log says nothing new: [...] pure-ftpd: pam_unix(pure-ftpd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=pure-ftpd ruser=anonymous rhost=[...] [...] pure-ftpd: pam_unix(pure-ftpd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=pure-ftpd ruser=ftp rhost=[...] user=ftp There is something wrong since pure-ftpd is not supposed to ask for a password for either user to begin with.
