After following some of the links that this thread referenced (since it is totally related to the one I put in on friday), I found the "rollback" solution, to disable pbkdf2 authentication. I did attempt pbkdf2 for a while, but openssl upgrade and pbkdf2 recompile issues have led me to drop that. Can someone PLEASE document the pbkdf2 issues and this disable feature on the galaxy wiki page: https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/Config/Upload%20via%20FTP Message: 2 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:08:24 +0000 From: "Hazard, E. Starr" <hazards@musc.edu> Subject: Re: [galaxy-dev] ProFFTPd-1.3.4d no longer able to authenticate users from Postgresql database So I tried a new version of ProFTPd I was not able to locate lines in universe_wsgi.ini which disable PBKDF2 The answer here does switch the passwords back to SHA1 format: (See http://lists.bx.psu.edu/pipermail/galaxy-dev/2013-September/016749.html )

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Ahoj Honzo,

Python is case-sensitive. Use 'use_pbkdf2 = False' and make sure you put it under the '[app:main]' section in the config file.

Enjoy Galaxy!

best

Martin Cech