So what is the advantage of using nopriv_user=ftpsecure ?

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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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Thaks for the response. I have seen this; however, the daemon still runs as root but the session seems to be run as the non_priv user.

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of ankush grover Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 12:07 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] vsftp and nonpriv_user option question

On 9/7/07, Blackburn, Marvin mblackburn@glenraven.com wrote:

So what is the advantage of using nopriv_user=ftpsecure ?

Hi,

May be this gives u an answer

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-62225.html

Regards

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