Local users in VSFTPD can't have a a false shell (was, VSFTPD problems with all logins anonymous or PAM)

[Mike Bird]

On Friday 06 October 2006 19:53, Gabriel M Dragffy wrote:
> This would seem to be a bit of a small discrepency, why can't vsftpd
> allow a user to login that has a shell of /bin/false? Pureftpd can, no
> probs, hmm.

Sorry, I should have covered that.  You can add /bin/false instead
of /sbin/nologin to the list of shells in /etc/shells.  We use
/sbin/nologin for compatibility across our various Redhat, Fedora,
Debian and Ubuntu systems.

--Mike Bird