Why won't vsftpd let me log in with a virtual user account?

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Published on 2012-02-06T13:38:50Z Indexed on 2012/10/09 9:42 UTC
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I would like to use vsftpd with virtual users and pam_pwdfile.so. I installed vsftpd and added two users (ramon and dragon) via htpasswd to my file /etc/vsftpd.passwd. The /etc/pam.d/vsftpd is configured to use this file.

auth  required        pam_listfile.so item=user sense=deny file=/etc/ftpusers onerr=succeed
auth    required pam_pwdfile.so pwdfile /etc/vsftpd.passwd
account required pam_permit.so

@include common-account
@include common-session

The user "ramon" is also available in /etc/passwd. A login to the ftp with the user "ramon" works as expected. But a login using "dragon" does not :/ The result is always

Login failed: 530 Login incorrect.

Since it's possible that I made a mistake I tried the exact way documented in /usr/share/doc/vsftpd/examples/VIRTUAL_USERS/README. Still no luck. I can login with the user "ramon", but not with the user "dragon".

Any ideas?

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