ftp login errors out with "Incorrect login" but sftp works

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Issue

Unable to login to the server via ftp but logging with sftp works.
Both filezilla and ftp to localhost result in the same error.
All the users affected.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • vsftpd

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