Hi all,

I am trying to build a ftp server with vsftpd. In general, I am not able to log in. I can only log in to the ftp server, if that same user is logged in to the server. I found out that this has to with my network setup. I am using OpenLDAP for centralized authentication and home directories are stored on an NFS server. The problem is that regular users are not allowed to log in to servers, therefore their home directories are not mounted. However I want to be able to give my users access to the ftp server without their home directories mounted. Is this possible with vsftpd and if so how do get this up and running. By the way, anonymous users are not allowed.

TIA

I forgot to mention that I would like the users to be chrooted in /opt/ftp, which I specially created for this task.

hi,

you can chroot the ftp users to /opt/ftp directory using this command.


"useradd username -p hostname -d /opt/ftp -s /bin/bash".

For the ftp users to login i have enabled a line

local_enable=yes

in the vsftpd.conf file, Please check whether it works for you or not.

Do you mean that I should create users on the localhost? As this is something I want to prevent. I already have user accounts stored in my directory service. The homeDirectory attribute in ldap is for each user set to /home/<username>. This cannot be changed as the home directory is mounted from an nfs server to /home.

So, I want to use the centralized useraccount for ftp and give them access to the ftp directory (/opt/ftp) without needing to change the location of their home directory.

I am starting to think this cannot be done...