I compiled with ssl enabled.
I've got rsa keys in place.
No firewall.
Users are correct, shells are set to /bin/false
For some reason I can only connect via ssh and only when the user's shell is set to /bin/bash
I've tried tons of clients.
What gives??




# READ THIS: This example file is NOT an exhaustive list of vsftpd options.
# Please read the vsftpd.conf.5 manual page to get a full idea of vsftpd's
# capabilities.
listen_address=64.31.*.*
anonymous_enable=NO

# Uncomment this to allow local users to log in.
local_enable=YES

# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
write_enable=YES

local_umask=077
max_clients=20
check_shell=NO
anon_upload_enable=NO
use_localtime=YES

anon_mkdir_write_enable=NO
pasv_min_port= 65500
pasv_max_port= 65525
dirmessage_enable=NO

xferlog_enable=YES
chroot_local_user=YES
passwd_chroot_enable=YES
# Make sure PORT transfer connections originate from port 20 (ftp-data).
#connect_from_port_20=YES

# If you want, you can arrange for uploaded anonymous files to be owned by
# a different user. Note! Using "root" for uploaded files is not
# recommended!
#chown_uploads=YES
#chown_username=whoever

xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log

xferlog_std_format=YES

idle_session_timeout=600

data_connection_timeout=120

# It is recommended that you define on your system a unique user which the
# ftp server can use as a totally isolated and unprivileged user.
nopriv_user=nobody
#
# Enable this and the server will recognise asynchronous ABOR requests. Not
# recommended for security (the code is non-trivial). Not enabling it,
# however, may confuse older FTP clients.
#async_abor_enable=YES
#
# By default the server will pretend to allow ASCII mode but in fact ignore
# the request. Turn on the below options to have the server actually do ASCII
# mangling on files when in ASCII mode.
# Beware that on some FTP servers, ASCII support allows a denial of service
# attack (DoS) via the command "SIZE /big/file" in ASCII mode. vsftpd
# predicted this attack and has always been safe, reporting the size of the
# raw file.
# ASCII mangling is a horrible feature of the protocol.
#ascii_upload_enable=YES
#ascii_download_enable=YES
#
# You may fully customise the login banner string:
#ftpd_banner=Attention user. If you're not a valid user then please log off
#immediately.
#
# You may specify a file of disallowed anonymous e-mail addresses. Apparently
# useful for combatting certain DoS attacks.
#deny_email_enable=YES
# (default follows)
#banned_email_file=/etc/vsftpd.banned_emails
#
# You may specify an explicit list of local users to chroot() to their home
# directory. If chroot_local_user is YES, then this list becomes a list of
# users to NOT chroot().
chroot_list_enable=NO
# (default follows)
#chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list
#
# You may activate the "-R" option to the builtin ls. This is disabled by
# default to avoid remote users being able to cause excessive I/O on large
# sites. However, some broken FTP clients such as "ncftp" and "mirror" assume
# the presence of the "-R" option, so there is a strong case for enabling it.
#ls_recurse_enable=YES
ssl_enable=YES
ssl_sslv2=YES
ssl_sslv3=YES
ssl_tlsv1=YES
force_local_data_ssl=YES
force_local_logins_ssl=YES
rsa_cert_file=/usr/share/ssl/certs/vsftpd.pem
#listen=YES

If you test with a FTP client that knows SSL like Gftp, please give us the exact client-side errors and server-side errors when you use an non-login shell.