Pure-ftpd: account disabled
Paul Ooi, December 19th, 2005trackback | RSS 2.0
I have configured pure-ftpd using FreeBSD ports(usually compiled from source). After everything have setup, postgresql, db, table, users and etc, it seem like cannot connect into the server with the below message…
Dec 19 16:34:14 server pure-ftpd: (?@60.48.150.26) [WARNING] Can’t login as [takizo]: account disabled
After few hours of checking, I found the cause of the problem is the UID and GID I set was low than 1000, if you have the similar problem, try to set a higer UID and GID. Better in the range of 5000(my own opinion).
All the best 
December 19th, 2005 at 18:05
UID/GID below 1000 are reserved system UIDs.
You shouldn’t have a user with a UID below 1000.
December 19th, 2005 at 18:55
I wasn’t know about it
Now I knew and learnt 
December 20th, 2005 at 00:14
[quote][WARNING] Can’t login as [takizo]: account disabled[/quote]
Poor-ftpd…
December 20th, 2005 at 09:21
mypapit, should say poor Paul
December 20th, 2005 at 10:56
use vsftpd ; highly configurable.. anyways.. the openbsd tshirt is rm85 and ive mailed u.. its paulooi.@gmail.com rite? let me know if ur ok with the price
December 21st, 2005 at 21:50
thakn for the recommendation alpha
March 4th, 2008 at 09:15
Lost an hour hunting this. Mandriva 2008 shipped the rpm with minUID set at 100. However the package created a ftp user and group set below that. arg…
Usually I expect bugs like that if I complied and installed it myself. Not out of the can from the distro.