Thread: Question from a newbie: can't login on proftpd
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Old 24th August 2007, 21:36
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In most default Proftpd configurations, root cannot use FTP for security reasons.

To add a user, see
Code:
man useradd
(add a user with the shell /bin/bash for now).
After you've created the user, you can create a password for him like this:
Code:
passwd username
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