proftpd error messages in /var/log/secure

breun · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 11:21 am

I see the following proftpd-related error messages in /var/log/secure on CentOS and I was wondering if they are expected or if some changes might be required to get rid of these:

Quote:

proftpd: Deprecated pam_stack module called from service "proftpd"

I guess this is because /etc/pam.d/proftpd (part of the psa-proftpd RPM package in Atomic) contains references to pam_stack.so. I only see this on CentOS 5, the psa-proftpd package for CentOS 6 contains a different /etc/pam.d/proftpd which does not contain references to pam_stack.so.

Quote:

proftpd: pam_env(proftpd:setcred): Unable to open config file: /etc/security/pam_env.conf: No such file or directory

/etc/security/pam_env.conf (part of the pam RPM package from CentOS) actually does exist on the filesystem.

Quote:

proftpd: pam_unix(proftpd:session): session opened for user xxxxxxxx by (uid=0)
proftpd[19754]: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]) - USER xxxxxxxx: Login successful.
proftpd: pam_succeed_if(proftpd:session): error retrieving information about user 0

Logging in works fine, but after each successful login an error about retrieving information about user 0 is logged.

scott · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 12:34 pm

Has to do with how proftpd "chroots" itself. Theres no way to "fix" that, since you'd have to duplicate the files across every users directory.

breun · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 6:18 pm

Ok, so all of these messages are harmless then?

Shouldn't /etc/pam.d/proftpd on EL5 be pam_stack-less, just like on EL6, to get rid of that deprecation message?

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