NAME

shells - pathnames of valid login shells

DESCRIPTION

/etc/shells is a text file which contains the full pathnames of valid login shells. This file is consulted by chsh(1) and available to be queried

by other programs.

Be aware that there are programs which consult this file to find out if a user is a normal user. E.g.: ftp daemons traditionally disallow access to

users with shells not included in this file.

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Kevin McGregor <kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com> wrote:

I already had put in
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES

Then on a whim I took out
auth required pam_shells.so

from /etc/vsftpd.conf, and then it started working. I guess it didn't like that /bin/bash was set as my shell in /etc/passwd and also in /etc/shells. Or something.

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Trevor Cordes <trevor@tecnopolis.ca> wrote:

On 2011-03-22 Kevin McGregor wrote:
> Maybe someone can throw in their two cents on this:
>
> I installed vsftpd on my Ubuntu 10.04 server, and I set
>
> local_enable=YES
> write_enable=YES
>
> When I FTP to the server, I get prompted for a username and password,
> but it seems to just reject it and ask for username/password again.
> What else do I need to do? I just want one account to be able to FTP
> upload files to this server.

Ah, you're assuming it's easy. Vsftp config is for sure not that!

Here's my config:
anonymous_enable=NO

local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES

local_umask=0002
dirmessage_enable=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log
xferlog_std_format=YES
idle_session_timeout=3600
nopriv_user=ftp
ascii_upload_enable=YES
ascii_download_enable=YES
ftpd_banner=This is a private system. Unauthorized use is strictly
prohibited. Violators will prosecuted.
pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=YES
userlist_deny=NO
userlist_file=/etc/vsftpd/user_list
listen=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES
chroot_local_user=YES
anon_max_rate=50000
local_max_rate=100000
anon_umask=0007
file_open_mode=0666
user_config_dir=/etc/vsftpd/userconfs

Then make a /etc/vsftpd/user_list and populate it with allowed user ids
for login. One per line. Mine only has 2 entries (the more locked
down the better).

Then make files, one per user allowed, the filename the same as the
username in /etc/vsftpd/userconfs/. I have 1 line in each:
local_root=/var/ftp/pub

Or wherever you want them to be able to access.

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