On Tuesday 25 January 2005 5:35 pm, James Knott wrote:

I've been trying to enable user access to vsftpd in SuSE 9.2. I've added "guest_enable=YES" to /etc/vsftpd.conf, but users still are denied access. There is also a string variable called "guest_username", but I have no idea what's supposed to go there. Anonymous ftp login works fine.

Taken from http://www.vsftpdrocks.org/faq/ Q) Help! Does vsftpd support virtual users? A) Yes, via PAM integration. Set "guest_enable=YES" in /etc/vsftpd.conf. This has the effect of mapping every non-anonymous successful login to the local username specified in "guest_username". Then, use PAM and (e.g.) its pam_userdb module to provide authentication against an external (i.e. non-/etc/passwd) repository of users. Note - currently there is a restriction that with guest_enable enabled, local users also get mapped to guest_username. There is an example of virtual users setup in the "EXAMPLE" directory. -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein Mark McKibben http://www.coffeebear.net/