similar to: vsftpd rejects users set to nologin

--On Thursday, January 10, 2019 4:17 PM -0500 Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote: > So I think this is a side effect of a long term argument of the security > nature of /sbin/nologin > > https://serverfault.com/questions/328395/nologin-in-etc-shells-is-dangero > us-why > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel at lists.fedoraproject.o >

Hi, I'm currently fiddling with G4U (Ghost for Unix), and I need to setup a local FTP server in order to get it to work. # yum groupinstall "FTP Server" --> installed vsftpd Here's what I'd like to do : * no anonymous access * only one user (user 'install' / pass 'install') The machine I'm installing it on has a static IP ok

More digging (now that I have a better handle on how to ask the question) reveals this bug against documentation and release notes for 7.6 to alert updaters about this breaking change for vsftpd: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1647485 The last comment there, #15 by "Roy": > For a workaround to vsftpd login failures that doesn't expose your system > to the

Hi ALL I'm using vsftpd as FTP server, and I'd like to chroot my FTP users to their home dir. How can I do it? i.e. "jailing" them in their home dir... at the moment I have the following issues the user when they login to ftp server they go to the main directory /var/ftp/ /etc/passwd ... sdc:x:501:501::/var/ftp/sdc:/bin/bash ase:x:502:501::/var/ftp/ase:/bin/bash

I have a new CentOS 7.4 (recently upgraded to 7.5) system that I have been struggling with in configuring vsftpd for FTPS Implicit (port 990). (The latest instructions I've used are at: https://www.unixmen.com/configure-vsftpd-ssltls-centos-7/) Using Filezilla client, I get: Error: GnuTLS error -15: An unexpected TLS packet was received. Error: Could not connect to

I updated to CentOS 7.6 and something must have changed in the base OS setup that prevents vsftpd from allowing logins for accounts with /sbin/nologin as their shell. I had to add that to /etc/shells so that such accounts could FTP again. That file is in the setup package. Did it include /sbin/nologin before? I don't have anything in my notes from setting up the system last year about

I have 1 Centos server V4.x already running VSFTPD and when the user logs in they get chrooted to the home directory, I have installed the same config files to a second server (again Centos V4.x) and have setup the same user on the second server but the user does not get chrooted to the home directory but is placed in /var/ftp/pub and cannot upload file. The files I copied are:-

Hello, Does anyone have this working? I have been looking for a couple of hours trying to find docs on how to set this up and so far the only thing I have found is how to enable ssl in vsftpd.conf. TIA

My vsftpd was working. I use it configured via xinetd and turn it off (disabled = yes) when I'm not using it to keep the bad guys from hammering on it. Recently I upgraded to 4.2 (via yum update). That' the only change I know of on the system. And I didn't have any problems with it. Today when I try to ftp, i enabled it in xinetd.d (with disable = no and a "service

I have an up-to-date CentOS 6 with reasonable amount of ftp activity (a dozen of network cameras uploading images every second 24x7). The first issue was that the whole /var filesystem was about to get full, because of huge ftp daemon log. vsftpd.conf says: # You may override where the log file goes if you like. The default is shown # below. xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log Ok, the above

Hi folks, I can't seem to log into my system via vsftpd. All other services using PAM are fine...Am I missing something simple? ftp> user (username) user 331 Please specify the password. Password: 530 Login incorrect. # getenforce Permissive here is the event in /var/log/audit/audit.log: type=USER_AUTH msg=audit(1247235151.569:9781): user pid=21052 uid=0 auid=0

Hi, This update is for the HowTo at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Chroot_Vsftpd_with_non-system_users Regarding two of the scripts provided: vsftpd_virtual_config.sh and vsftpd_virtual_config_withTLS.sh: The configuration additions it makes to PAM do not work on 64-bit systems. In vsftpd_virtual_config.sh (Lines 55 & 56) and vsftpd_virtual_config_withTLS.sh (Lines 123 & 124) should be

greetings today i was expanding my knowledge of vsftpd on a low traffic CentOS 4 production environment server i have fyi, i was working on learning to setup a chroot environment by the simple editing of /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf so, as i normally do when i start making changes i did this cd /etc/vsftpd/ cp -a vsftpd.conf bak-vsftpd.conf then i made the edits in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf that i

(another in an ongoing list of things i just want to clarify for the sake of future courses taught on centos.) from this RHEL doc page: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-openssh-server-config.html the reader is advised to, for the sake of security, remove/disable vsftpd, ostensibly in favour of sftp/sftp-server. really? i can obviously

I'm setting up a local mirror server on a CentOS4 box. I want it to serve files over http, nfs and ftp. I've set this up with the mirrored directories on a separate partition. I've got the http and nfs working but am having some trouble with ftp. I'm using vsftpd as the ftp server. I can log in to the ftp server and get to the pub (/var/ftp/pub) directory. However when I try

Greets ... I am not getting it. I have samba (old one, 3.0.22-11-SUSE-CODE10) in an ADS-context, winbind works OK ... I am trying to connect vsftpd to winbind via PAM, this works TOO GOOD ;-) currently I am able to login to vsftpd with ANY password, that's bad. I am not understanding that PAM-stuff and I have some pressure to get that ftp-server up, so please would someone help me out? My

If someone could give advice - I am running Centos 4 and on it I am running among other things vsftpd. Today I noticed the ftp services wasn't running, when I went to restart it it says it starts, but there is no pid for it. when I do a status on it, it gives a message saying "vsftpd is dead but subsys is locked" I have tried removing the lock file and no joy. I even just resorted to

Hi; I've learned how to add a user and change the root dir of vsftpd (which of course is undocumented). Now I need to learn how to make it so that a given user can only access his/her folder (within the root dir). Please advise. TIA, Victor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

The proposed subject of Wiki contribution: Chroot vsftpd with non-system users The proposed location of Wiki contribution: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Chroot_Vsftpd_with_non-system_users I propose this Wiki to give user choice that they can select whether virtual users and system account coexist in vsftpd system. The shell file vsftpd_virtual_config.sh should also adjust to make this function

Hi, We have patched Centos 4.4 to work properly with the recent DST changes, but our customers are reporting wrong FTP client timestamps based on which areas they live in. What are the two main mechanisms in Centos that control time? I know about /etc/localtime and TZDATA, is there something we may have missed? Or is this perhaps a VSFTPd thing and I could go bug that list? To be clear,