Dear galaxy developers,

We have tried today to upgrade our proftpd configuration to make uploading for our galaxy users possible again, both for users with "old" as well as "new" style hashed passwords. We upgraded proftpd on the server to 1.3.5rc3 and have the following SQL part in our configuration file based on the post of http://dev.list.galaxyproject.org/ProFTPD-integration-with-Galaxy-td4660295.html

SQLEngine on

SQLLogFile /var/log/proftpd-sql.log

SQLBackend postgres

SQLConnectInfo galaxy@localhost:5840 galaxyftp <[ourpassword]>

SQLAuthTypes SHA1 SHA256 PBKDF2

SQLPasswordPBKDF2 SHA256 1000 24

SQLPasswordUserSalt sql:/GetUserSalt

SQLAuthenticate users

SQLDefaultUID 108

SQLDefaultGID 116

SQLDefaultHomedir /opt/cloudman/pkg/proftpd/var

SQLUserInfo custom:/LookupGalaxyUser

SQLNamedQuery LookupGalaxyUser SELECT "email, (CASE WHEN substring(password from 1 for 6) = 'PBKDF2' THEN substring(password from 38 for 32) ELSE password END) AS password2,'108','116','/mnt/galaxyData/tmp/ftp/%U','/bin/bash' FROM galaxy_user WHERE email='%U'"

SQLNamedQuery GetUserSalt SELECT "(CASE WHEN SUBSTRING (password from 1 for 6) = 'PBKDF2' THEN SUBSTRING (password from 21 for 16) END) AS salt FROM galaxy_user WHERE email='%U'"

We have executed the LookupGalaxyUser and GetUserSalt commands manually, and the results look good. Now, old users can login via ftp, but for a new user, the authentication still fails:

2013-07-26 13:15:06,989 mod_sql/4.3[31761]: >>> cmd_check

2013-07-26 13:15:06,989 mod_sql/4.3[31761]: checking password using SQLAuthType 'sha1'

2013-07-26 13:15:06,989 mod_sql/4.3[31761]: 'sha1' SQLAuthType handler reports failure

2013-07-26 13:15:06,989 mod_sql/4.3[31761]: checking password using SQLAuthType 'pbkdf2'

2013-07-26 13:15:06,993 mod_sql/4.3[31761]: 'pbkdf2' SQLAuthType handler reports failure

What are we missing?

Thanks!

Rob and Leon

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Hailiang (Leon) Mei
Netherlands Bioinformatics Center
BioAssist NGS Taskforce
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