VSFTP with virtual users

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In this tutorial we will learn how to install vsftp with virtual user support. We will assume that you HAVE already installed the vsftp application. As we do want a separate ftp server, our configuration is parallel to the standard vsftp config.

First go to

The enter the following lines in the file myserver.conf

In this case all the files uploaded by our virtual users will be set to apache. The server is running on port 5909 and everything will be logged on var/log/myserver.log . You will have to pay attention to the home directory of the user specified in guest_username setting it to a proper directory where the user will operate.

Then we do

and we enter the following lines

Also in this case you have to pay attention to the pam_userdb location... Our is under lib64!

Then we create a user file map under /etc/vsftpd/

In this file we enter each virtual user we want. The syntax is quite simple as the username and the password  are put in different lines. The following will define a foo user with a bar password

To compile the file you must type

Then we will restart the vsftpd service:/etc/init.d/vsftpd restart

Now you can try the installation by typing

and login with the user foo and password bar. If everything is ok... you will see the "login successfull" message.

If something goes wrong:

At the bottom of the file enter:

Then restart syslog

Then you can watch into the file /tmp/debugpam.log to look for error messages (yes... you have to try the ftp server!)

Once everything is ok just remove /etc/pam_debug and the inserted line in /etc/syslog.conf and restart syslog.