how to add users in VSFTPD w/ RHEL 4 AS?

guest · 03-29-2005, 04:34 AM

I'm pulling my hair out on this one... i can't seem to find any documentation that tells me how to add a user to this VSFTPD program.. Linux is so difficult to use..... they have to make it a lot easier to use!!!!!!! arghhhh

geek_to_core · 03-29-2005, 07:40 AM

this is from vsftpd.conf (default) file.

Quote:

# Allow anonymous FTP? (Beware - allowed by default if you comment this out).
anonymous_enable=YES
#
# Uncomment this to allow local users to log in.
#local_enable=YES

local users suffice as ftp users too. So make a new user on your machine and for security reasons make her shell as /bin/nologin.

selfxplanatory · 03-31-2005, 12:18 AM

useradd newusername

r0man · 01-10-2009, 04:24 PM

the matter of the ftp users is that the system users are valid in the ftp(vsftp) service.

for example if you have a "test" user in the system, you can do this:
ftp <ip>
and you put the username name of the system:"test"
and the password for that user...

if you want some security what you could do is make chroot in /etc/vsftpd.conf file and limit the users to a gage.

chroot_local_user=yes #To enable the chroot users (gage)
chroot_list_enable=yes #To enable the chroot
chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.chroot_list #add the users to this file.

phgrey · 04-17-2009, 09:15 AM

please, one more question. I need to create a new user for VSFTPD that uses PAM on freeBSD. can I too just create a system user? Or not?
thanks a lot.

that's what I see in /etc/pam.d/vsftpd:
auth required /usr/local/lib/pam_pwdfile.so pwdfile /usr/local/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd_logins
account required /usr/lib/pam_permit.so