So what is the advantage of using nopriv_user=ftpsecure ? _____ From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at 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 at 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. _____________________________________ "He's no failure. He's not dead yet." William Lloyd George _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070907/c8e19833/attachment-0004.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3921 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070907/c8e19833/attachment-0004.bin>