[Bug 992578] Re: vsftpd error 530 after upgrade from oneiric to precise

[Teppo Sulavuori]

removing /etc/pam.d/vsftpd worked for me also, but that makes the whole
"supports pam authentication" totally meaningless, since you can't
actually configure anything for vsftpd :-)

Could this be regression or something similar to this old bug from redhat?
(Comment 24 mentioning some kind of "pam module stack memory overflow" thing..)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708657#c24

Reasoning: removing /etc/pam.d/vsftpd means actually that pam just uses
the default "other" authentication, which in effect only includes the
common-* things, which in turn is almost the same what the original
vsftpd-file does. But looking with strace shows that for some reason
vsftpd opens the /etc/pam.d/other file even when /etc/pam.d/vsftpd is in
place? Don't know if it is supposed to do that or not, just an
observation. In the end it seems that removing vsftpd-file results in
vsftpd opening less pam-files and that could incidate that this is
related to some kind of memory limit barrier..?

** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #708657
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708657

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