vsftpd 2.0.6, login problem

Hi, everyone.

I recently installed the latest vsftpd (2.0.6) and it seems that I’m missing something because I cannot login.

As the config is a little bit complicated, I will explain what I am looking for. I have two users which should connect to the server, each one receiving a special location to download/upload only his own files. No anonymous connections are accepted. All connections from 127.0.0.1 only at this time.

Users are ‘bogdan’ and ‘bogdan2’. I wanted each one of the users to have its own folder in /Users/ftp, so I mkdir /Users/ftp/bogdan and /Users/ftp/bogdan1

These are the config lines/files. I marked the path with bold and the file content with italics.

/etc/hosts.allow
vsftpd : 127.0.0.1 : allow

/opt/local/etc/vsftpd_login.db

Comment: username and passwords, prepared with db_load (Berkeley).

/etc/pam.d/vsftpd
auth required /lib/security/pam_userdb.so db=/opt/local/etc/vsftpd_login
account required /lib/security/pam_userdb.so db=/opt/local/etc/vsftpd_login

/opt/local/etc/vsftpd.conf
listen=YES
listen_address=127.0.0.1
background=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
max_clients=5
max_per_ip=4
use_localtime=YES

#nopriv_user=ftpsecure

/opt/local/etc/vsftpd_user_conf/bogdan
echo “write_enable=YES” > /opt/local/etc/vsftpd_user_conf/bogdan
echo “local_root=/Users/ftp/bogdan” > /opt/local/etc/vsftpd_user_conf/bogdan
echo “download_enable=YES” > /opt/local/etc/vsftpd_user_conf/bogdan
echo “dirlist_enable=YES” > /opt/local/etc/vsftpd_user_conf/bogdan
echo “chroot_local_user=YES” > /opt/local/etc/vsftpd_user_conf/bogdan

Comment: user ‘bogdan’ gets privileges on a per user basis.

/opt/local/etc/vsftpd_user_conf/bogdan2
echo “write_enable=YES” > /opt/local/etc/vsftpd_user_conf/bogdan2
echo “local_root=/Users/ftp/bogdan2” > /opt/local/etc/vsftpd_user_conf/bogdan2
echo “download_enable=YES” > /opt/local/etc/vsftpd_user_conf/bogdan2
echo “dirlist_enable=YES” > /opt/local/etc/vsftpd_user_conf/bogdan2
echo “chroot_local_user=YES” > /opt/local/etc/vsftpd_user_conf/bogdan2

Comment: user ‘bogdan2’ gets privileges on a per user basis.

I tried to login using the credentials from
vsftpd_login.db file, but it didn’t work: “530 Login incorrect.”

I also created the same users with the same passwords on localhost, changes the home directory to /Users/ftp/bogdan, given the GID 52 ftp-users with Netinfo manager. The same result.

My guess is that something is wrong with the way users and passwords are created and permissions are set.

Any idea where I got wrong and how can I make it work?

Bogdan