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I am setting up a new user let his name be ftpguy. He has access to only one directory /var/www/xxx. I have already chowned the directory so that he has write and read privileges. The user is also unable to login via ssh as I have disabled that by changing his shell to /sbin/nologin.

Also, in vsftpd config, I have enabled the chroot_local_user. Now whenever I log in from ftp, i get an auth error.

Connect socket #1008 to xxxxxxxx, port 21...   
220 Welcome to blah FTP service.  
USER ftpguy  
331 Please specify the password.  
PASS **********  
530 Login incorrect.

I changed the password to something different several times, using the passwd command, nothing happens, i still the above error.

However I am able to log in with my ssh creditals to my ftp server without any problems.(I do not use a key).

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I ran across this while letting my friend piggy back off my vps. I had to set his shell to a real shell instead or /bin/false or /bin/nologin. I then used the DenyUsers option in sshd_config to prevent him connecting via ssh.

It may be a bug with VsFTP but I didnt have time to get to the bottom of it yet.

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