Using vsftpd v1.2.2 on 2.4.27-sparc with user-specific configs. I could not get the user-specific configs to work until I moved the entire user-specific config directory to /vsftpd/*, instead of the original /etc/vsftpd/user_conf/*. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create user-specific config file in /etc/vsftpd/user_conf/smith with the following contents dirlist_enable=NO 2. Add this line to /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf user_config_dir=/etc/vsftpd/user_conf 3. restart vsftpd, and see if you can do a "dir" when ftp'ing using userID "smith". You can, even though the config file says you shouldn't be able to do so. 4. move the user-specific configs to /, i.e. cp -rp /etc/vsftpd/user_conf /vsftpd 5. change vsftpd.conf to point to the new location user_config_dir=/vsftpd 6. restart vsftpd. Now ftp'ing as user smith will NOT be able to see contents using "dir" or "ls". Actual Results: Moving the user-specific configs to / worked around the issue. Expected Results: user-specific configs should be able to be stored in /etc/vsftpd/user_conf (as is documented in most/all of the examples) # ls - ald / /etc /etc/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf /etc/vsftpd/user_conf /etc/vsftpd /user_conf/oem /vsftpd /vsftpd/* drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Dec 2 12:58 / drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 4096 Dec 2 13:05 /etc drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 2 13:20 /etc/vsftpd drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 2 13:17 /etc/vsftpd/user_conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165 Dec 1 15:15 /etc/vsftpd/user_conf/smith -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3920 Dec 2 12:58 /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 2 13:03 /vsftpd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178 Dec 2 13:03 /vsftpd/smith # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-sparc64-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2, 2.4.27-sparc sparc64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.27-sparc sparc64 sun4u Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.23 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=ultrasparc -O3 -pipe" CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/ config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=ultrasparc -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://csociety- ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.ccccom.com http://ftp- mirror.internap.com/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="sparc X arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups encode esd f77 fbcon foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gtk imlib jpeg kde libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt readline sdl slang spell ssl tcpd truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib"
This works for me using net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3 Re-open if not
Where is this version 2.0.3? # emerge search vsftpd Searching... [ Results for search key : vsftpd ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * net-ftp/vsftpd Latest version available: 1.2.2 Latest version installed: 1.2.2 Size of downloaded files: 133 kB Homepage: http://vsftpd.beasts.org/ Description: Very Secure FTP Daemon written with speed, size and security in mind License: GPL-2
It's masked ~ARCH - ~sparc in your case Add "net-ftp/vsftpd ~sparc" to /etc/portage/package.keywords. You can see this do doing equery list -p net-ftp/vsftpd
