vsftpd and virtual users
 

After following the how-to at www,markus-welsch.de for configuring vsftpd to use virtual users I get the following error from any client trying to connect.

220 (vsFTPd 1.2.0)
Name (attendance.its.swt.edu:none): course1
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
500 OOPS: missing value in config file for:
Login failed.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection


Here is /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf:


# =========================================================================
# base configuration
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
anon_world_readable_only=NO
anonymous_enable=NO
chroot_local_user=YES
guest_enable=YES
guest_username=ftp
hide_ids=YES
listen=YES
local_enable=YES
max_clients=100
max_per_ip=1
nopriv_user=ftp
pasv_max_port=65535
pasv_min_port=64000
session_support=NO
use_localtime=YES
user_config_dir=/etc/vsftpd/users
userlist_enable=YES
userlist_file=/etc/vsftpd/denied_users
xferlog_enable=YES
log_ftp_protocol=YES
pam_service_name=vsftpd
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# =========================================================================
# ftp settings
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
anon_umask=0027
async_abor_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
dirlist_enable=NO
download_enable=NO
# =========================================================================

Here is /etc/pam.d/vsftpd:

#%PAM-1.0
auth required /lib/security/pam_userdb.so db=/etc/vsftpd/accounts debug
account required /lib/security/pam_userdb.so db=/etc/vsftpd/accounts debug


Here is /etc/vsftpd/users/course1:

anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
anon_other_write_enable=YES
anon_upload_enable=YES
dirlist_enable=YES
download_enable=YES
local_root=/var/www/html/course1
write_enable=YES

The accounts.db file is in /etc/vsftpd. Im using Fedora Core1 and Berkeley DB 4.1.25 (included with Fedora). Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Hi JeffV,

no really good idea why it doesn't work.

Is there an error message in the vsftpd log?

Maybe there is no entry "write_enable=NO" in the vsftpd.conf file ?

Do you tried the configuration files from the example-configuration ?

(ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans.../VIRTUAL_USERS)


bye
Yoss

Resolved the problem. vsftpd doesn't like blank lines in the per-user configuration files.