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How to create two users that share same dir plus vsftp access (Debian 6)?

Hi,

I have a problem I'm running Debian 6 and I need to have two users one that has the ability to login via ssh and the other that has only the ability to use FTP or to server as FTP user.
They need to share the same folder. The SSH users should have all permissions rwx, the FTP one should have only rw.

When I used CentOS 6.3 I was just running these commands and I got what I wanted but on Debian it does not work as it should. When FTP user tries to login to FTP server returns "530 Login incorrect" and refuses the connection.

Here are the commands that I use to create these users:

Code:

useradd SSHUser  

passwd SSHUser  #I set the password manually by typing

useradd FTPUser -d /home/SSHUser -s /sbin/nologin  #tried to change shell to /bin/false

passwd FTPUser #I set the pass for FTP user

usermod -a -G SSHUser FTPUser  #I set the FTP user to same group as SSHUser

chmod -R 775 /home/SSHUser #set the permissions to folder eaven tried with 777

So this works on CentOS 6.3 with vsftpd but it does not work with Debian 6.
Does anyone have a clue what is causing the problem?

Thanks in advance!

When FTP user tries to login to FTP server returns "530 Login incorrect" and refuses the connection.

1.What are the changes you had made in your vsftpd.conf file ?

If you had enabled Comment out pam_service_name=vsftpd in vsftpd.conf .Check out whether you could able to login

Hi,

Make sure that /bin/false (and/or /usr/sbin/nologin) exist in /etc/shells.

Regards

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Originally Posted by arun5002 (Post 4834518)

Here is my vsftpd.conf

Code:

listen=YES

anonymous_enable=NO

local_enable=YES

write_enable=YES

dirmessage_enable=YES

use_localtime=YES

xferlog_enable=YES

connect_from_port_20=YES

ftpd_banner=Welcome to blah FTP service.

chroot_local_user=YES

secure_chroot_dir=/var/run/vsftpd/empty

pam_service_name=vsftpd

rsa_cert_file=/etc/ssl/private/vsftpd.pem

Also I've tried with proftpd and no luck.

Quote:

Make sure that /bin/false (and/or /usr/sbin/nologin) exist in /etc/shells.

I've also tried with /bin/false ,they exist in the directory, that's not causing the problem.

More suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Quote:

I've also tried with /bin/false ,they exist in the directory, that's not causing the problem.

Open the file /etc/shells with your favorite text editor and add /bin/false after the other valid shells listed.

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Originally Posted by bathory (Post 4834801)

Open the file /etc/shells with your favorite text editor and add /bin/false after the other valid shells listed.

Thank you very much for help it worked!