glytch

I just wanted to say thanks again for the swift reply on my earlier thread about Apache, and I'm glad it was such a simple fix. I'm hoping this will be a relatively simple one as well.

Here's the problem. I'm setting up vsftpd on RH9 and I've done a little configuration but left most of the .conf files alone. When I try to connect from a different machine, it makes a connection, but gives this error: "500 OOPS: str_getpwnam: ftpsecure". Anyone ever seen this or have any idea what could be the problem? A google search on this error message didn't turn out as well as I had hoped.
I can include my configurations if they are needed.

Again, thanks in advance for anyone that tries to help.

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yotta

My guess is it is trying to switch to a user named ftpsecure, who does not exist.

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glytch

Yet again, the great help at TFP comes through for me. Thanks yotta!

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yotta

so, that was the problem?

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glytch

It was exactly what you suggested. I had set "ftpsecure" as an unprivelaged user per my vsftpd.conf file, and hadn't actually created that user.

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