So what is the advantage of using nopriv_user=ftpsecure ?


From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of umair shakil
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 10:01 AM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] 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@glenraven.com> 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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