vsftpd: cannot locate user specified in 'ftp_username':ftp
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 2:01 pm
[PROBLEM]
When starting vsftpd from xinetd, no errors or warnings are shown in the logs and xinetd seems to be running fine.
But when trying to access the ftp server, the connection is refused with this errormessage:
[SOLUTION]
In my case, vsftpd did not automatically find its config file (which was "/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf"), so it loaded its defaults which don't work with xinetd.
So simply provide the position of the proper vsftpd.conf file within the xinetd-config for vsftp by setting "server_args". Here's what my /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd looks like:
When starting vsftpd from xinetd, no errors or warnings are shown in the logs and xinetd seems to be running fine.
But when trying to access the ftp server, the connection is refused with this errormessage:
Changing the option "ftp_username" in vsftpd.conf seems to be completely ignored.500 OOPS: vsftpd: cannot locate user specified in 'ftp_username':ftp
[SOLUTION]
In my case, vsftpd did not automatically find its config file (which was "/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf"), so it loaded its defaults which don't work with xinetd.
So simply provide the position of the proper vsftpd.conf file within the xinetd-config for vsftp by setting "server_args". Here's what my /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd looks like:
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service ftp
{
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/vsftpd
server_args = /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
nice = 10
disable = no
}