[WARNING] Sorry, cleartext sessions are not accepted.

Your Ftp server rejects your access to the server on providing the username and do not prompt for a password as well and you may see the following error in the your server logs:

Jan 10 11:22:33 mai1 pure-ftpd: (?@xx.xx.xx.xx) [WARNING] Sorry, cleartext sessions are not accepted on this server. Please
reconnect using SSL/TLS security mechanisms.

Ftp can accept three values:

# 0 : disable SSL/TLS encryption layer (default).
# 1 : accept both traditional and encrypted sessions.
# 2 : refuse connections that don’t use SSL/TLS security mechanisms.

If the “TLS” directive below these options is set to 2, you will receive the face the above stated problem. In order to overcome the issue, change the value of “TLS” from 2 to 1 and restart pure-ftpd service:

/scripts/restartsrv pure-ftpd

This will now allow you to access Ftp without using a SSL/TLS security mechanisms.

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