Hi,

Camilo Rostoker <rostokec@cs.ubc.ca> wrote:

>> I got /etc/pam.d/vsftpd with the following content:
>> |# Standard behaviour for ftpd(8).
>> |auth required pam_listfile.so item=user sense=deny \
>> |file=/etc/ftpusers onerr=succeed
> What is this bit for? I don't have this, but it wasn't included in the
> sample vsftpd.pam file included with vsftpd.

Users listed in /etc/ftpusers are not allowed to login.

> Hmm....there's got to be some reason that mine won't compile with PAM
> support. If you have any other suggestions then please pass them my
> way...Otherwise I guess I'll have to wait for the next release which
> looks like its on its way soon ...

Looks like libpam0g-dev is missing. If installed vsftpd compiles with
pam support, if not installed pam support is disabled.

> p.s. Just a general question...The main disadvantages of FTP is that is
> uses cleartext passwords, and obviously sftp or scp would be much
> better. But in a webhosting environment most users only have access to
> basic FTP clients. I'm just curious what other people do about this
> situation, if they force their users to get secure FTP clients, or do
> they still use FTP regardless??

I forced most of my users to scp. WinSCP provides a gui for the windows
guys and iirc there are scp-guis for mac-os too.
WebDAV/HTTPS provides secure filesystem access as well and iirc most
html-editors can deal with that.

so long tho
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