On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 16:09, Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote: > I updated to CentOS 7.6 and something must have changed in the base OS > setup that prevents vsftpd from allowing logins for accounts with > /sbin/nologin as their shell. I had to add that to /etc/shells so that > such > accounts could FTP again. That file is in the setup package. Did it > include > /sbin/nologin before? I don't have anything in my notes from setting up > the > system last year about changing that. What's the history of shells listed > in /etc/shells? > So I think this is a side effect of a long term argument of the security nature of /sbin/nologin https://serverfault.com/questions/328395/nologin-in-etc-shells-is-dangerous-why https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/UCUWTT63JS72R7ROFE46ZVUZLFN3K2MZ/ The second thread goes over me being an idiot in multiple places... > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Stephen J Smoogen.