vsftpd auth

[Phobos_86]

Hi friends,
I am newbee to this forum can any one help me on this

how ftp authentication done when am having useers like

1.local users
2.NIS users
3.ADS users

I want to know from where the authentication works with vsftpd??

[Mudgen]

The main thing people stumble on with NIS is that the user MUST have a login shell defined, and it must be in /etc/shells. vsftpd insists on it. For Active Directory, you have to configure openldap to authenticate against the DC.

[Phobos_86]

thank for your reply. But i wanna know from which user the authentication starts from like which passwd file it will fetch first for auth

[Mudgen]

thank for your reply. But i wanna know from which user the authentication starts from like which passwd file it will fetch first for auth

Doesn't have a single answer, too many ways to skin the cats, particularly the LDAP one. Since you want to use 3 authentication databases, you'll be using PAM, and there are multiple ways to handle the order of use of the databases via PAM. If you use nss_ldap, you could set the order in nsswitch.conf.