> > I was working on a newly-installed machine for a customer who requires an > > ftp server. After installing vsftpd (which i *had* good experience with), > > I noticed that the 'anonymous_enable' switch in /etc/vsftpd.conf, when > > set to 'NO' *does* allow anonymous access. > > Logging in using the 'anonymous' user does not work, logging in using the > > 'ftp' user *does* work. > > The 'ftp' user is listed in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, and has a > > disabled password on all machines where I tried this and saw it working. > > I was only able to test this with 1.2.0-2 .
What are you talking about? This is my box running fbsd 4-stable, vsftpd-1.2.0, anonymous access disabled: (take no look at the banner string, this is just kidding :) 22:36:32:toxa $ ftp toxa.lan Trying 192.168.2.1... Connected to toxa.lan. 220 toxadomain Microsoft FTP Service (Version 5.0) Name (toxa.lan:toxa): ftp 530 Permission denied. ftp: Login failed. ftp> quit 221 Goodbye. 22:36:39:toxa $ I use vsftpd.user_list with users allowed to acces to my box, ofcourse there's no 'ftp' user in it.
