500 OOPS: vsftpd: cannot locate user specified in 'ftp_username':ftp
I've been tearing my hair out over this: vsftp does not work on any of my RedHat Server 5.x systems - I keep getting a variation on 500 OOPS: vsftpd: cannot locate user specified in 'ftp_username':ftp or 500 OOPS: cannot locate user entry:nobody (different errors on different systems). I spent some time on google trying to find a solution, to no avail. I even tried to build from source but ran into other issues.
No matter what I change the ftp_username value to, I get the same result.
The ftp & nobody users exists in /etc/passwd
Here's my vsftpd.conf file (comments removed for brevity)
/etc/nsswitch.conf
We have a user that is sending rather large print jobs to a windows printer, we need to track them down and advise a sensible approach to printing. The only thing that shows up in the windows print manager is the IP address of the source.
Is this achievable?
:confused: (7 Replies)
These are the warning messages I am getting but the FTP works fine.How do I get rid of these?
220 FTP server (SunOS 5.8) ready.
500 'AUTH GSSAPI': command not understood.
500 'AUTH KERBEROS_V4': command not understood.
KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type (0 Replies)
I've been fighting this for about a year: vsftp does not work on any of my RedHat Server 5.x systems - I keep getting a variation on 500 OOPS: vsftpd: cannot locate user specified in 'ftp_username':ftp or 500 OOPS: cannot locate user entry:nobody (different errors on different systems). I spent... (0 Replies)
Hello Gurus,
after installtion and configuration of vsftpd and NcFTPd, i could able to ftp from another Linux server but not from other windows cmd prompt. :mad:
It show user/PASS need to be provided :( its not even prompting for username and password. :(
Y it differs from windows and... (0 Replies)
Hello Gurus,
after installtion and configuration of vsftpd and NcFTPd, i could able to ftp from another Linux server but not from other windows cmd prompt.
It show user/PASS need to be provided its not even prompting for username and password.
Y it differs from windows and linux...?
... (1 Reply)
Is there a way i can only force SSL encryption if they connect from outside our network OR allow certain IP's to connect without using encryption? (0 Replies)
Hi I am using the vsftpd ftp server.
I am using it for the wordpress that I run.
The folder /var/www/wordpress/wp-content has only root write permission.
No one else has right permission to it.
I want to give the vsftpd ftp also write permission for it.
But no other user should have that... (1 Reply)
HI
I have set up vsftp on my Red hat server.
Chroot has been set up to control access to each user and folder directories.
This all works fine.
But i have one directory where i want to chroot but ensure that the ftp access is read only.
Any help appreciated
thanks
Treds (1 Reply)
:rolleyes:I am trying to setup all certificate based client-server environment in Linux using vsftpd and curl with openssl.
I would like to make a user access with vsftpd certificate and user own client certificate (self-signed) with private/public key.
I don't see google posts about the my plan... (4 Replies)
I'm wondering if vsftpd supports user subcommand?
I found I can't switch user after ftp login.
Maybe someone can give me a certain answer.
I always got the message as below,
I enabled log_ftp_protocol=YES and checked the vsftpd.log,
it didn't help much actually. The log file only... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: bestard
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
vsftpd
VSFTPD(8) BSD System Manager's Manual VSFTPD(8)NAME
vsftpd -- Very Secure FTP Daemon
SYNOPSIS
vsftpd [configuration file and / or options]
DESCRIPTION
vsftpd is the Very Secure File Transfer Protocol Daemon. The server can be launched via a ``super-server'' such as inetd(8) or xinetd(8).
Alternatively, vsftpd can be launched in standalone mode, in which case vsftpd itself will listen on the network. This latter mode is easier
to use, and recommended. It is activated by setting listen=YES in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf. Direct execution of the vsftpd binary will then
launch the FTP service ready for immediate client connections.
Systemd changes the vsftpd daemon start-up. The vsftpd package contains vsftpd-generator script generating symbolic links to /var/run/sys-
temd/generator/vsftpd.target.wants directory. The generator is called during e.g. 'systemctl --system daemon-reload'. All these symbolic
links link /usr/lib/systemd/system/vsftpd@.service file. The vsftpd daemon(s) is/are controlled by one of following ways:
1. Single daemon using default /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf configuration file
# systemctl {start,stop,...} vsftpd[.service]
2. Single daemon using /etc/vsftpd/<conf-name>.conf
# systemctl {start,stop,...} vsftpd@<conf-name>[.service]
3. All instances together
# systemctl {restart,stop} vsftpd.target
See systemd.unit(5), systemd.target(5) for further details.
OPTIONS
An optional configuration file or files may be given on the command line. These files must be owned as root if running as root. Any command
line option not starting with a "-" character is treated as a config file that will be loaded. Note that config files are loaded in the
strict order that they are encountered on the command line. If no config files are specified, the default configuration file of
/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf will be loaded, after all other command line options are processed.
Supported options are:
-v Print the version information and exit, even if other options are encountered.
-ooption=value
Set a single option, value pair as per the format in the config file. Multiple -o options are supported, and they are applied in
strict order relative to their appearance on the command line, including intermingling with loading of config files.
EXAMPLES
vsftpd -olisten=NO /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf -oftpd_banner=blah
That example overrides vsftpd's built-in default for the "listen" option to be NO, but then loads /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf which may override
that setting. Finally, the "ftpd_banner" setting is set to "blah", which overrides any default vsftpd setting and any identical setting that
was in the config file.
FILES
/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/system/vsftpd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/vsftpd@.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/vsftpd.target
SEE ALSO vsftpd.conf(5)systemd.unit(5)
March 8, 2001