Why do LDAP users fail to authenticate against vsftpd in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1?
Issue
- LDAP users can't authenticate against the
vsftpd
service:
May 28 12:42:38 cl01-07 vsftpd[16009]: pam_unix(vsftpd:auth): check pass; user unknown
May 28 12:42:38 cl01-07 vsftpd[16009]: pam_unix(vsftpd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ftp ruser=ldapuser rhost=localhost.localdomain
May 28 12:42:38 cl01-07 vsftpd[16009]: pam_succeed_if(vsftpd:auth): error retrieving information about user ldapuser
-
local users can authenticate against the
vsftpd
service. -
LDAP users can authenticate against other services (e.g. ssh).
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
- LDAP authentication.
vsftpd
version 2.2.2-6.el6_0.1.
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