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Why won't vsftpd let me log in with a virtual user account?
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I would like to use vsftpd with virtual users and pam_pwdfile.so. I installed vsftpd and added two users (ramon and dragon) via htpasswd to my file /etc/vsftpd.passwd. The /etc/pam.d/vsftpd is configured to use this file. The user "ramon" is also available in . A login to the ftp with the user "ram…
Error Output
auth required pam_listfile.so item=user sense=deny file=/etc/ftpusers onerr=succeed auth required pam_pwdfile.so pwdfile /etc/vsftpd.passw…
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I had the same problem, but this thread helped. Apparently vsftpd has problems with MD5 hashes. When I instructed htpasswd to use crypt() (the -d option), it suddenly worked:
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