Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2217 mails)

[joe <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Johansson wrote:
> 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)

OK, that was just a sanity check. Perhaps my experience is dated, but when I
was running standalone some years ago I had to restart the ftp server whenever
making any type of user account change.

Joe
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