I've seen a lot of posts about vsftpd not allowing local users to log in. I have tried all the stuff mentioned in the threads but to no avail. When I try to connect using a local user mvoltz I get incorrect login and I know that the password is correct. The users are listed in the /etc/passwd file and they have a shell assigned to them. They are not listed in /etc/vsftpd.user_list or /etc/vsftpd.ftpusers. Here is my config file located in /etc/vsftpd:

anonymous_enable=YES
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022
dirmessage_enable=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=YES
listen=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES
check_shell=NO

I do not believe I have pam or tcpwrappers installed. I am running centos 4.4 and the version of vsftpd is vsftpd-2.0.1-5.EL4.5 that I installed using yum. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You

If you have SELinux enabled it will cause problems with FTP out of the box.

I believe this might fix it, run 'setsebool -P ftp_home_dir 1' from the console then retry

Thanks for the suggestions Digital, but I figured it out and it is very weird. Somehow the /bin/bash entry in /etc/shells had a : added to the end. So pam was comparing /bin/bash: from /etc/shells to /bin/bash listed in my passwd file and they weren't the same. I don't know how this happened, but that solved it.

Another thing, I was using the custom home directory of /home/ftp-docs that I saw in a tutorial somewhere, but apparently vsftpd doesn't like that so I switched to /var/ftp/pub. Otherwise I get the 500 OOOPS: can't change directory error.

I hope this information will help someone else out that is going through these issues.

Thanks.