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.
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,
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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
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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...?
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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)
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)
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220 FTP server (SunOS 5.8) ready.
500 'AUTH GSSAPI': command not understood.
500 'AUTH KERBEROS_V4': command not understood.
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