updating FTP

**gjansky** · 09-09-2002, 01:10 AM

I'm in the middle of updating wu-ftpd. I am running an RH6.2 box, and I finally upgraded rpm to 4.02. I've tried running:

rpm -U wu-ftpd-2.6.1-0.6x.21.i386.rpm

I get the message:

error: failed dependencies:
/etc/pam.d/system-auth is needed by wu-ftpd-2.6.1-0.6x.21

How do I fix this? Do I need a fresh install of PAM? Or is there a way to create the system-auth file?

Thanks.

Greg

**pbharris** · 09-09-2002, 12:39 PM

hello,
i would upgrade the pam rpm or else force it.

**gjansky** · 09-09-2002, 03:31 PM

Thanks. I've found an updated PAM rpm. Now, if I do the upgrade, will it use my original PAM files, or will I have to recreate them. (I'll back them up, no matter what.)

Greg

**pbharris** · 09-09-2002, 04:35 PM

hello,
if it does try to update them you should get an pam.rc.orig (or what whatever..) i.e. it shoiuld back up custom settings itself.

09-10-2002, 03:36 PM

my suggestion would be to switch to proftpd.
how many times have we seen the following headline on linux news sites: "new Wu-ftpd vulnerability gives up remote root access"