RE: vsftp and nonpriv_user option question

["Blackburn, Marvin" <mblackburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So what is the advantage of using nopriv_user=ftpsecure ?

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From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of umair shakil
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 10:01 AM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: vsftp and nonpriv_user option question

Dear Blackburn,

There are 0 to 1024 ports that are privileged 
ports and those ports will on be run by
root.

Regards,

Umair 
Shakil
ETD

On 9/7/07, Blackburn, Marvin <mblackburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

thhis didnt go through completely the first time.

 

 

I am a bit confused as to how this works. 

I created a local unpriveleged user (with /bin/nologin shell).

i uncommented the line containing

nopriv_user=ftpsecure

and restarted vsftp.

 

I am confused as to what is supposed to happen.

Shuld the daemon /usr/sbin/vsftpd be run as root or should it be ftpsecure?

 

Or is the account only used to login to transfer files?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

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