[RndTbl] vsftp not connecting

[Kevin McGregor]

Oops, yes, /etc/pam.d/vsftpd.

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Gilles Detillieux <
grdetil at scrc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:

> Yeah, something sounds out of whack here.  pam_shells should work
> correctly when your login shell IS in /etc/shells, and fail when it's
> not.  Is there something in /etc/shells that's throwing it off, like a
> funny character or something?  Is /etc/shells world-readable?  (It is on
> my RHEL 5.5 clone (SL 5.5).)  Maybe try putting the pam_shells.so line
> right after the pam_listfile.so line, as RHEL does, before the includes.
>
> BTW, you did mean /etc/pam.d/vsftpd, not /etc/vsftpd.conf, where you
> removed the pam_shells.so line, right?
>
> On 22/03/2011 1:16 PM, Sean Walberg wrote:
> >  >From shells(5)
> > 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 at gmail.com <mailto:kevin.a.mcgregor at 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.
>
> --
> Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <grdetil at scrc.umanitoba.ca>
> Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
> Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 0J9  (Canada)
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