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Hey there,

I just wanted to share a problem I had with my ftpdaemon with you and which I didn't find in this forum.

My ftp server always throw an error, trying to log in with new created ftp accounts. I'm not sure since when this error occurred, a user of mine pointed me on that issue. But I would say the Vestacp version is not essential in that case.

My ftp client acted as if I just entered wrong user data. So I checked the vsftp logs in /var/log/vsftpd.log Actually looked like wrong user data. But I entered them correctly.
I checked /etc/passwd and in the meantime I also googled a bit. So I found this article, which described exactly my problem.
https://github.com/serghey-rodin/vesta/issues/1437

New users got a different path to the "nologin" shell than before.
Initially it was /sbin/nologin. New users got the path to /usr/sbin/nologin
That path was not registered in /etc/shells. Looked like this: and I easily added this line saved the file and everything worked fine again afterwards.

Cheers and have a nice Sunday!

Thank you very much for the solution!
Indeed, after the Vesta update, this line was not added (this is added automatically when you install it now).

Kudos!
This topic helped me as well! :)

Not working here ... I already added line in shells and checked /etc/shadow
the user is being created, but additional ftp doesnt works

mestresan wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 16, 2019 12:52 pm

Not working here ... I already added line in shells and checked /etc/shadow
the user is being created, but additional ftp doesnt works

And you restart FTP or server ?

I think reboot is needed to take new values, almost restart some services.

Thanks a lot! I've been having this problem for a while now and thanks to your solution it's now fixed.

Solution works. Neat!