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/cb0dfd10/attachment-0005.html>