LinuxQuestions.org - CentOS 5.5 vsftpd virtual users with pam

Hi everyone

I'm running CentOS 5.5 64bit and I'm trying to get an FTP server up and running so clients can dump files directly onto our shared NAS device. I've recently decommissioned our old Windows 2000 box which was running an FTP server.

vsftpd seemed like the logical choice to try since it was mentioned in most of the CentOS FTP tutorials I found.

Problem is I want to setup virtual users on the FTP server and that seems to involve building pam_pwdfile from source ( http://cpbotha.net/software/pam_pwdfile/ )
So I've downloaded it and followed the instrucions in post #8 at http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/...topic_id=21232

Made the changes to vsftpd.conf and to /etc/pam.d/vsftpd
And created a user and passwd file using htpasswd
But when I try and login to localhost I get the following messages:

Code:

220 Welcome

530 Please login with USER and PASS.

KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type

Name (localhost:root): upload

331 Please specify the password.

Password:

530 Login incorrect.

Login failed.

Even though that's the only user I've created and I'm sure I got the password correct.
I think there's something I've screwed up with my compiling of pam_pwdfile
Do those instructions above still apply to CentOS 5.5?

Here's the contents of vsftpd.conf, only changes included:

Code:

listen=YES

local_enable=YES

chmod_enable=NO

chown_uploads=YES

chown_username=nobody

ftpd_banner=Welcome

local_umask=022

log_ftp_protocol=YES

max_clients=30

pam_service_name=vsftpd

secure_chroot_dir=/var/run/vsftpd

tcp_wrappers=YES

userlist_enable=YES

userlist_file=/etc/vsftpd/user_list

virtual_use_local_privs=YES

And here's my /etc/pam.d/vsftpd

Code:

#%PAM-1.0

session    optional    pam_keyinit.so    force revoke

auth      required    pam_listfile.so item=user sense=deny file=/etc/vsftpd/user_list onerr=$

auth      required    pam_shells.so

auth      include      system-auth

account    include      system-auth

session    include      system-auth

session    required    pam_loginuid.so



# Customized login using htpasswd file

auth    required pam_pwdfile.so pwdfile /etc/vsftpd/passwd

account required pam_permit.so

Anyone got any suggestions on what to try with this?

Anything I should be doing differently in post #8 here... http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/...topic_id=21232

Cheers, B