I upgraded from FC3 to FC4 a couple of weeks ago. Everything seems to be a success with the exception of VSFTPD which does not work anymore. I have tried to solve this on and off for the past two weeks but have had no success. Setup description: I have VSFTPD to be configured to use virtual users using the example in the EXAMPLES folder in the documentation. The Berkeley database is used to store the user name and passwords. All virtual users are mapped to the same user and chrooted into the same directory. The setup has worked from FC1 and survived upgrades to FC2 and FC3 without problems. xinetd is used as a superserver. I'll not include the conf-file here for brevity but it could be sent upon request. Error description: After connecting to the box VSFTPD puts up a welcome banner and prompts for a login. After the password has been entered the following error message appears: 500 OOPS: priv_sock_get_result and it quits. The same result both with or without the Xinetd superserver. I have tried the following: (1) Read somewhere that there might be a conflict if another program tries to use the same port, but issuing a netstat -a shows no other services using the ftp port. Tried in standalone listening mode and shut down xinetd but that still produced the same error. (2)I tried to switch off SELinux if that would have anything to do with it but to no avail (using the setenforce command). (3) I set PAM in debug mode thinking that it was the pam_userdb-module that did not work as intended. The output looked fine, e.g. ---cut--- Jun 24 12:04:17 localhost pam_userdb[4854]: Verify user `x' with password `vannabragare' Jun 24 12:04:17 localhost pam_userdb[4854]: password in database is [0x96e3bd8]`x^Y', len is 12 ---cut--- (4) When setting vsftpd in "log every event mode" (or something like that) I got the following: ---cut--- Fri Jun 24 10:06:15 2005 [pid 4877] [x] FTP response: Client "127.0.0.1", "331 Please specify the password." Fri Jun 24 10:06:17 2005 [pid 4877] [x] FTP command: Client "127.0.0.1", "PASS <password>" ---cut--- No errors here either. I have no clue now. (5) When switching to anonymous mode, VSFTPD seems to work correctly. But why? And I don't want anonymous logins, I like the virtual user PAM approach. (6)-(999999) I have fiddled with all vsftpd.conf options impatiently and to no avail. I have also started to read the source code, but my C is very rusty and my time limited. Any ideas? I am getting very confused here... Since the primary use for the machine was as an ftp server, it is somewhat worthless right now. Is there anything changed FC3 to FC4 in PAM or anyplace else that could have this effect? Would be thankful for any help or ideas! Best regards Andreas
