Re: How to configure anonymous users in vsFTP?

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Budi Febrianto wrote:
> Thanks for the reply... I solved the problem.
>
> But when I run ps -Af, I saw that root also run the vsftpd, is that normal?
>
> root     13164   542  0 15:17 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
> root     13165 13164  0 15:17 pts/0    00:00:00 -bash
> root     13200 12141  0 15:21 ?        00:00:00 vsftpd
> vsftp    13202 13200  0 15:21 ?        00:00:00 vsftpd
> root     13203 13165  0 15:21 pts/0    00:00:00 ps -Af

Do you have vsftp launched manually or by xinetd?  If by xinetd, it's
not uncommon to have the thing run as root until someone logs in.  Once
the user logs in, the ownership will change to that of the logged-in
user.
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