interactions between OPIE-ftpd and RH5.2

[Truckstop Psychic <adam baz org>]

Ran into a weird problem, and this seemed a good forum to toss it out into
-- if I've gaffed, please let me know.

Just upgraded my RH5.0 box to RH5.2.  Went well, worked nearly seamlessly.

When running 5.0, though, I'd installed the opie-fied ftpd that comes with
the most recent opie package (ftp://ftp.inner.net/pub/opie/opie-2.32.tar.gz)
and had it work without a hitch.  I'd also changed /bin/login and /bin/su
to their opie counterparts.

Once I'd finished the upgrade, login and su still worked exactly as before,
but attempting to ftp in failed.  User gets prompted for name, receives the
correct opie prompt, gives the one-time-password, and gets unceremoniously
told "Login incorrect."

Interestingly, the next time the user tries, the opie sequence *has*
decremented by one -- clearly, the user is satisfying the challenge
somewhere.  (and it doesn't decrement if the one-time-password is
incorrect.)

The error that gets logged is of this form:

# Dec  3 11:36:41 foo ftpd[23527]: connection from localhost at Thu Dec  3 11:36:41 1998 
# Dec  3 11:36:42 foo ftpd[23527]: Invalid FTP user name adam attempted from localhost.

Naturally, the username "adam" is a valid one, and I can successfully ftp
in using that userid and a static password via the stock wuftpd that RedHat
sees fit to ship.

Anonymous ftp via the opie-ftpd works just fine.

# Dec  3 11:41:06 foo ftpd[23536]: Anonymous FTP connection made from host localhost.
# Dec  3 11:41:09 foo ftpd[23536]: ANONYMOUS FTP login from localhost with ID foo bar org 

So my question is this: since the opie ftpd shouldn't (in my limited
understanding) be making calls to pam, an upgraded pam shouldn't be causing
this, especially given the fact that opie-login and opie-su work just
fine... Is there some other obvious breaking-point that I'm missing here?

A

[mod: Readers, please reply to Adam. Adam, please summarize in a week
or so. -- REW]


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