trouble setting up vsftpd on FC3 (tcp_wrappers?)
Chuckles
phlebas at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 14 22:12:56 UTC 2005
Chuckles wrote:
*snip*
> I added the ftp firewall entry, I have tried every variation I can
> think of of /etc/hosts.allow entries for ftp (though it should work for
> localhost at least with "ALL: LOCAL" shouldn't it?), started vsftpd, and
> nada. Since it works with tcp_wrappers disabled I know I'm doing
> something wrong/stupid re them. I wish I still had FC1 around so I
> could refer to its setup for vsftpd because it worked like a charm. The
> one thing I think I remember that seems to be different is that there is
> no /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd file present on FC3 (there is a sample in the
> docs for vsftpd). I wonder if that is required even when vsftpd is run
> standalone? Note: I copied the sample xinetd config for vsftpd in the
> vsftpd docs dir to /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd leaving 'disabled=' set to 'yes'
> and still no go.
>
> I'm feeling very frustrated and stupid here...
Answering my own cry for help... Feeling very stupid indeed... Just
so no one else will suffer my silly mistake:
With a hint from some helpfull guys in #fedora on irc.freenode.net I
figured out I was screwing up my /etc/hosts.allow entries that allow
local and remote access via tcp_wrappers to vsftpd. I just had that
feeling it was something bloody obvious I was overlooking and it was.
;) I had the meaning of the hosts.allow 'LOCAL' entry wrong in my head.
To quote the man page, "LOCAL Matches any host whose name does not
contain a dot character." I had to add 127.0.0.1 to allow local
connection to vsftpd with an entry like this, "ALL: LOCAL 127.0.0.1"
then add "vsftpd: <remote ip>".
Now it works. On to the next thing I can screw up. ;)
--
Chuckles <phlebas at earthlink.net>
Life Sucks! Then You DIE!!!
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