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["Theo v. Werkhoven" <theo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fri, 14 Sep 2007, by ajohansson@xxxxxxxxxxx:

> On Friday 14 September 2007 00:01:36 joe wrote:
> > Anders Johansson wrote:
> > > On Thursday 13 September 2007 23:38:37 joe wrote:
> > >> It has everything to do with the problem - if you run vsftpd from xinetd
> > >> there is no need to manually restart it when adding/deleting/changing
> > >> user accounts. In fact that's one of the main reasons we switched to
> > >> xinetd.
> > >
> > > This still begs the question
> > >
> > > vsftpd uses pam, and pam doesn't cache user info, and since it's external
> > > to vsftpd, it literally can't cache it.
> > >
> > > Just for the hell of it, I just tested it, and it worked perfectly with
> > > new users, and with changed passwords, without any restart at all
> > > necessary
> >
> > Are you running it standalone?
> 
> Yes, otherwise it would be restarted (as you said yourself)

And with virtual users in a Berkeley database, with pam_userdb as I am?
as far as I know, vsftpd needs to be made aware of a change in the
database file that pam_userdb uses, by restarting. For users in
/etc/passwd this is not necessary.
But to make sure, I'll try to change accounts without restarting.

Theo
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