[horde] gollem asks for user and passowrd to "ftp server"?

[eculp@encontacto.net]

Quoting "Lane, Jim" <Jim.Lane at CIBC.com>:

> Ed: this is a classic example of why one should never give geeks a
> straightforward problem to solve:-) The problem, it seems, isn't with
> either Horde or Gollem. If I go to a shell prompt on my webserver system
> and try running "ftp localhost" I get login failures with each and every
> valid account. So, I assume if I get the unix end of it fixed the web
> app will probably work fine too. Sigh.

AMEN.  The command line is key, BTW, you might try substituting the 
`hostname` for localhost both on the command line first and then in 
gollem and see if that works.  You mention that there are no security 
issues.

ed

>
> Regards,
> Jim Lane
>
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> Sent: July 7, 2006 9:38 AM
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> Subject: Re: [horde] gollem asks for user and passowrd to "ftp server"?
>
> Quoting "Lane, Jim" <Jim.Lane at CIBC.com>:
>
>> Hi, All
>>
>>
>>
>> I've installed and configured the latest releases of Horde and Gollem.
>> The menus for Horde come up fine showing Gollem as "file manager".
> When
>> I click on it I get a panel asking for a userid and password to
> connect
>> to an FTP server. What userid and password is this referring to? I
> tried
>> to setup Horde to use my /etc/passwd file but I couldn't seem to get
>> that to work. Now I've reverted to the default where invoking Horde
>> automatically logins me in as Administrator. I'm sure I'm probably
>> missing something here. There are an awful lot of tabs under Horde
>> configuration after all. How should I be setting this up? I don't have
>> LDAP or anything else other than local Unix accounts to work with.
>> Security isn't a major concern in this environment.
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> I use ldap and have never tried with unix accounts but I don't see why
> there should be any differences.  It should work the same as the
> command line.
>
> Below is one of my configurations for ftp in gollem/backends.php that
> will hopefully help you as a point for comparison.
>
> If your horde login is only the userid and password and are the same as
> your commandline ftp userid and password, this configuration that I use
> for ldap should probably work.  The root and home variables will need
> to be set up for your installation.  I use virtual domains in proftpd
> so '/' in my case is:
>
> /home/virtual/$vdomain/
>
> do to my setup in proftpd.  So basically this gives them access to
> their homedirectory only.  The same in unix could be something like
> '/home/'
>
> $backends['personalftp'] = array(
>  'name' => 'FTP Server',
>  'driver' => 'ftp',
>  'preferred' => '',
>  'hordeauth' => 'full',
>  'params' => array(
>  'root'=> '/' . Auth::getAuth(),
>  'home'=> '/' Auth::getAuth(),
>  'hostspec' => 'localhost',
>  // The port number of the FTP server
>  'port' => 21,
>  'pasv' => false,
>  ),
>  'attributes' => array('type', 'name', 'download', 'modified', 'size',
> 'permission', 'owner', 'group')
> );
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> ed
>
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