I need to set up anonymous FTP for a client, but the standard vhost parameters in the /etc/proftpd.conf don’t seem to be honored. Does the SQL authentication take precedence over a vhost allowing anonymous login?
If I understand correctly everything goes throuth the database for authentication.
This has come up before. The workaround that some other clients have done is installing a second copy of proftpd on a different port, allowing anonymous login.
I’ll spare you the lecture about the security holes you will be opening up doing this, since I’m sure you know already 
The SQL auth shouldn’t affect anonymous users PaulK, are you getting any helpful errors in the proftpd log?
Chris
I cranked up the log level and managed to get anonymous working (although I had to disable the vhost I was using to get it to work). That’s acceptable for now, but I’m somewhat confused as to why a vhost that I copied directly from a previous server won’t work now. None of the options are deprecated… Anyway, thanks.