Hi,

I've had vsftpd running for over a year. All of a sudden it stopped accepting logins from chroot'd accounts, whether command line sftp in linux ( reports permision denied) or using things like wsftp in windows. I've even added new accounts and am getting the same error. I get a message in my root mail saying the user cannot login because /dev/null is not executable. The accounts have all been chrooted using the "." in the password file, with login shells set to /dev/null and this worked fine until recently. Non-chrooted accounts can still login w/o a problem and if I remove the chroot in the passwd file the account can login. I googled the above error message and all I seem to find are msg's related to ssh failed logins. I check the various logs, messages, vsftp, etc and cannot find anything indicating a stranger has gained access. This is a small business w/ a domain so I am getting usual "knocking at my door" activity from the script crackers. No other public services are running, nntp, smtp, web, etc. Anyone had anything like this happen and solved the issue w/o a restore

Regards

Mark