proftpd problem

hi all,

I am facing problem with loging in using ftp
I am using proftpd ftp serve.

all it say is "LOGIN INCORRECT".

Can anyone guide me through?

I have PAM configured
ftp is in place (in /etc/pam.d/)

passwd file is in place (in /usr/local/proftpd/etc)
as mentioned in proftpd.conf

finally here is my proftpd.conf


########### proftpd.conf start ###############

# This is a basic ProFTPD configuration file (rename it to
# 'proftpd.conf' for actual use. It establishes a single server
# and a single anonymous login. It assumes that you have a user/group
# "nobody" and "ftp" for normal operation and anon.

ServerName "Consular Operations Central"
ServerType standalone
DefaultServer on

# Port 21 is the standard FTP port.
Port 21

# Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new dirs and files
# from being group and world writable.
Umask 022
TimeoutLogin 120
TimeoutIdle 600
TimeoutNoTransfer 900
TimeoutStalled 3600

#AuthPAM off
# To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes
# to 30. If you need to allow more than 30 concurrent connections
# at once, simply increase this value. Note that this ONLY works
# in standalone mode, in inetd mode you should use an inetd server
# that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service
# (such as xinetd).
MaxInstances 10
#PersistantPassword off

# Set the user and group under which the server will run.
User nobody
Group nobody

# To cause every FTP user to be "jailed" (chrooted) into their home
# directory, uncomment this line.
#DefaultRoot ~

DefaultRoot /usr/local/apache/htdocs

#
# Performance, let's do DNS resolution when we process the logs...
#
UseReverseDNS off


# Normally, we want files to be overwriteable.
<Directory />
AllowOverwrite on
</Directory>

# A basic anonymous configuration, no upload directories. If you do not
# want anonymous users, simply delete this entire <Anonymous> section.
<Anonymous ~ftp>
User ftp
Group ftp

# We want clients to be able to login with "anonymous" as well as "ftp"
UserAlias anonymous ftp

# Limit the maximum number of anonymous logins
MaxClients 10

# We want 'welcome.msg' displayed at login, and '.message' displayed
# in each newly chdired directory.
DisplayLogin welcome.msg
DisplayFirstChdir .message

# Limit WRITE everywhere in the anonymous chroot
<Limit WRITE>
DenyAll
</Limit>
</Anonymous>

<VirtualHost 192.168.100.191>
ServerAdmin sameerni@netscape.net
ServerName "Consular Operations"
Umask 027
DefaultRoot /usr/local/apache/htdocs
Port 4000
# AuthPAM off

AuthUserFile /usr/local/proftpd/etc/passwd
# AuthGroupFile /usr/local/proftpd/etc/group



<Limit LOGIN>
DenyAll
</Limit>

<Anonymous /usr/local/proftpd/nowhere>
User ftp
Group ftp
UserAlias anonymous ftp

<Limit LOGIN>
AllowAll
</Limit>

<Limit WRITE>
DenyAll
</Limit>

</Anonymous>

#
# define user based access
#
<Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs>
<Limit ALL>
AllowUser sam
AllowUser almighty
DenyAll
</Limit>
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

########### proftpd.conf end ##############


Here is my passwd file

########## passwd file start ###########

almighty:thatsme:99999:99999::/home/sam:/bin/bash
vipin:vipin:99998:99998::/home/vipin:/bin/bash

########## passwd file end ###########

you are alright with giving away usernames and passwords?
are you sure the u/n, p/w and ports are correct

I just found out that the passwords need to be md5 encrypted hash and not cleartext

so I am gonna try that....

Strike

sameerni, next time you post a topic like this, it should be posted to Linux forum, not here.