vsftpd does not change the home directory to user's home directory in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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Issue

  • I have configured vsftpd to use the openLDAP for authentication.
  • When I logged into the ftp server with an account in LDAP, the home directory defined for this user in LDAP was not used.
anonymous_enable=NO
guest_enable=YES
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022
dirmessage_enable=YES

syslog_enable=NO
xferlog_enable=YES
xferlog_std_format=YES

connect_from_port_20=YES
listen=YES

pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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