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I have installed Pure-FTPd on my MacOS Catalina using brew and started it using brew services start pure-ftpd. The configuration in /usr/local/etc/pure-ftpd.conf sets NoAnonymous to be no and MinUID to be 100. I have created a virtual user that is based on the system account nobody with a UID of 4294967294. I have also added /usr/bin/false to /etc/shells. However, I still get the following error:

421 Sorry, but I can't trust you
ftp: Login failed.

After attempting to modify the configurations and creating slightly modified virtual users several times, I shifted my attempt to logging in to FTP as anonymous. However, I got the following error:

Unable to set up secure anonymous FTP

I have checked out the FAQ for Pure-FTPd and it seems that I have addressed all potential causes of the above two errors. Any suggestions on how I can log in to FTP?

stan25
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i follow the steps in the following thread pure-ftpd Connection refused localhost on high sierra

  1. I have stopped the service(Also check in Activity Monitor to ensure no other instance of pureftpd running).
$ brew services stop pure-ftpd
  1. I have remove to service
$ brew remove pure-ftpd
  1. I have updated brew
$ brew upgrade
  1. I have cleaned it
$ brew cleanup
  1. I have reinstalled it
$ brew install pure-ftpd
  1. I have created the /etc/pam.d/pure-ftpd following lines using root privilege:
# pure-ftpd: auth account password session
auth       required       pam_opendirectory.so
account    required       pam_permit.so
password   required       pam_deny.so
session    required       pam_permit.so
  1. Set pam configuration
sudo /usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd -lpam -B
  1. I have restart the service
$ brew services restart pure-ftpd
  1. And finally the connection has successfully!
$ ftp localhost
Trying ::1...
Connected to localhost.
220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] [TLS] ----------
220-You are user number 1 of 50 allowed.
220-Local time is now 20:42. Server port: 21.
220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Name (localhost:alexandre1202): 
331 User alexandre1202 OK. Password required
Password: 
230 OK. Current directory is /Users/alexandre1202
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp>
metro
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