On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 05:36:10PM -0800, Dave Peters wrote:
> I have setup vsftpd on redhat 5 and have setup the following on
> /etc/passwd to lock the user directory.

Hopefully you mean RHEL 5.x, not Red Hat 5, which was released in
about 1997 or so...  ;-)

> I created user and edit /etc/passwd
> useradd -d /home/ftp/ftpuser/ -s /dev/null ftpuser > /dev/null 2>&1

It's been a very long while since I was familiar with vsftpd (or any
FTP server), but I believe this will not work.  Many FTP servers will
not allow a login from a user who does not have a valid shell listed
in /etc/shells -- I'm betting that's what's going on here.  It's
customary to set the user's shell to /sbin/nologin for this...  On
RH-like systems it should already be in /etc/shells, and will not
allow a user to log in and get a shell via "normal" means.

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