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I'm setting up a webserver and hardedning some things, I'm trying to us vsftpd for sftp and I'm having a bit of a problem. I am eventually trying to move towards virtual users and chroot to special directories, but first I'm just trying to deny a whole bunch of usernames from being used for login.
I have verified that the username I'm trying to use (lets say user1) is in the /etc/vsftpd/denied_users file, but when I connect via sftp it still lets me login with user1.
I'm using a centos 6.3 vps from godaddy, and I don't have "getenforce" or "setsebool" on the system, not sure if that matters?
What can I do to get vsftpd to deny users in my denied_users list?
I feel for you having to deal with GoDaddy support, I was an admin for them for a few years before the support went downhill. It's hard to get answers from them but this should do the trick. If not we may need to look at your /etc/vsftpd.user_list and see if that is causing a conflict or maybe another directive in your vsftpd.conf
Hey guys,
I'm setting up a webserver and hardedning some things, I'm trying to us vsftpd for sftp and I'm having a bit of a problem. I am eventually trying to move towards virtual users and chroot to special directories, but first I'm just trying to deny a whole bunch of usernames from being used for login.
I have verified that the username I'm trying to use (lets say user1) is in the /etc/vsftpd/denied_users file, but when I connect via sftp it still lets me login with user1.
I'm using a centos 6.3 vps from godaddy, and I don't have "getenforce" or "setsebool" on the system, not sure if that matters?
What you're doing won't work. Vsftpd is a secure FTP server...sftp uses the SSH protocol. Different port, different service. Changing one doesn't change the other.
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