PureFtpd authentication prob (virtual users)

I'm going crazy trying to create a virtual-user with Pure-ftpd. Keep getting "authentication failed". Regular users have no problem. I've goggled and searched extensively, trying all of the suggestions that people have made. (It seems a rather common problem!) The listserv mailing list is very low volume and has not been of any help.

Eg,

groupadd ftpgroup
useradd -g ftpgroup -d /dev/null -s /etc ftpuser

pure-pw useradd test -u ftpuser -d /home/ftpusers/test
pure-pw mkdb
/usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd -B -j -4 -lpuredb:/etc/pureftpd.pdb

Have even recompiled/reinstalled using --with-puredb

What else can I do? I really need this capabilitity and may have to abandon this ftp product if I can't get it to work.

Thanks!

 

 

 

 

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