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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=459000814-07092007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>So what is the advantage of using nopriv_user=ftpsecure
?</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> centos-bounces@centos.org
[mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>umair
shakil<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 07, 2007 10:01 AM<BR><B>To:</B> CentOS
mailing list<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CentOS] vsftp and nonpriv_user option
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<DIV></DIV>Dear Blackburn,<BR><BR>There are 0 to 1024 ports that are privileged
ports and those ports will on be run by<BR>root.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Umair
Shakil<BR>ETD<BR><BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 9/7/07, <B class=gmail_sendername>Blackburn,
Marvin</B> <<A
href="mailto:mblackburn@glenraven.com">mblackburn@glenraven.com</A>>
wrote:</SPAN>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN><SPAN>thhis didnt go through completely the
first time.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN><SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN><SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN>I am a bit confused as to how this
works. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN>I created a local unpriveleged user (with
/bin/nologin shell).</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN>i uncommented the line containing
</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN>nopriv_user=ftpsecure</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN>and restarted vsftp.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN>I am confused as to what is supposed to
happen.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN>Shuld the daemon /usr/sbin/vsftpd be run as
root or should it be ftpsecure?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN>Or is the account only used to login to
transfer files?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any help would be
appreciated.</FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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