vsftpd

mpn · 12-18-2004, 10:15 PM

Greetings. I've just installed vsftpd on Slackware 10 and I'm running it in standalone mode (by setting listen=YES in /etc/vsftpd.conf). I have no problems establishing a connection to the server, but when I try to login using any of the local users other than root, I get "login failed." I have set local_enable=YES in vsftpd.conf and restarted the server, but still had no luck.

Thanks.

-- mpn

mpn · 12-18-2004, 10:31 PM

Here is my vsftpd.conf file:

http://webpages.charter.net/mikenolan/vsftpd.conf

goofyheadedpunk · 12-21-2004, 02:48 PM

Did you forget how to allow users other than root login, and perhaps couldn't find it in the docs?

mpn · 12-21-2004, 02:51 PM

Yes, that's exactly the problem. I had it working on my former Gentoo server with three users, but when I reinstalled here, I coudn't get it working the same way. I couldn't find it anywhere in "vsftpd.conf"

mpn · 12-22-2004, 12:34 AM

It turns out that the problem was caused by no shells being listed for the users in /etc/passwd. The problem was resolved by adding them.