vsftpd: 530 Login incorrect

I can't get vsfptd working on Ubuntu 12.04.

my vsftpd.conf file looks like this, and I try to connect with a local user:

listen=YES
anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
dirmessage_enable=YES
use_localtime=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
secure_chroot_dir=/var/run/vsftpd/empty
pam_service_name=vsftpd
rsa_cert_file=/etc/ssl/private/vsftpd.pem

Error message in FileZilla:

Response:   331 Please specify the password.
Command:    PASS ****
Response:   530 Login incorrect.

Back up the config file before making a change;

sudo cp /etc/vsftpd.conf /etc/vsftpd.conf.back

and then edit vsftpd.conf (with vi or nano)

nano /etc/vsftpd.conf

Then make the following change

pam_service_name=ftp

Save your change and restart the ftp server (if you use nano hit CTRL+O & enter to save then CTRL+X to exit)

sudo service vsftpd restart

Source: VSFTPD configuration problems with 12.04

By default vsFTPd uses the file /etc/pam.d/vsftpd. This file by default requires FTP users to have a shell listed in /etc/shells and requires them not to be listed in /etc/ftpusers. If you check those 2 things your probably find what the problem is.

I did not need to change the vsftpd.conf. Only needed to make sure that a shell was set in my /etc/passwd file, that also was lited in /etc/shells.

So basically after useradd without a shell I needed to make sure the home directory was created and that the user had /bin/bash as it's shell.

I met this problem when I tried to login in with root and I just solved it.

vsftpd: version 3.0.2

Solution:

Check the following file (it contains list of users disallowed FTP access):

/etc/ftpusers 

In my case, I commented out root from the file, then it worked.

Please make some changes in /etc/vsftpd.conf:

pam_service_name=ftp

If you want to set access by default /var/www directory for local user you can do that with below line:

local_root=/var/www

Now save and exit.

Restart vsftpd server using:

sudo service vsftpd restart