Hey Ed, Given your debug output, it looks like mod_auth_* are not compiled in? Check your binary: /usr/sbin/proftpd -l $ /usr/sbin/proftpd -l | sort | grep auth mod_auth.c mod_auth_file.c mod_auth_pam.c mod_auth_unix.c Give it a check, see what you find... -te PS: ftp://ftp.falsehope.com/home/tengel/proftpd/ -- if you can get me shell access to your X86_64, I'll build a binary for that arch that *should* work 100% like the i386 Ed Morrison wrote: > xxx.xxxxx.com (xx.xx.xx.xx[xx.xx.xx.xx]) - dispatching PRE_CMD command > 'USER wells' to mod_tls > xxx.xxxxx.com (xx.xx.xx.xx[xx.xx.xx.xx]) - dispatching PRE_CMD command > 'USER wells' to mod_core > xxx.xxxxx.com (xx.xx.xx.xx[xx.xx.xx.xx]) - dispatching PRE_CMD command > 'USER wells' to mod_core > xxx.xxxxx.com (xx.xx.xx.xx[xx.xx.xx.xx]) - dispatching PRE_CMD command > 'USER wells' to mod_auth > xxx.xxxxx.com (xx.xx.xx.xx[xx.xx.xx.xx]) - dispatching CMD command 'USER > wells' to mod_auth > xxx.xxxxx.com (xx.xx.xx.xx[xx.xx.xx.xx]) - dispatching LOG_CMD command > 'USER wells' to mod_log -- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com