[Bug 1049240] [NEW] nologin shells don't allow sftp access

[wrigley]

Public bug reported:

This may be just me that sucks at configuring vsftpd, but I've google'd
the **** out of this problem, pardon the language, and I can't seem to
get sftp login to work, with users with a nologin shell. Thus my last
inspiration was it might be a bug in vsftpd that causes it to disregard
the settings I've tried to implement. Here's what I've done (because
google said these would be the issues):

Each attempt has been tried with /usr/sbin/nologin, /bin/false and
/bin/true.

I've tried every combination of
* adding the shell to /etc/shells,
* disabled the pam_shells.so in /etc/pam.d/vsftpd
* adding check_shell=NO to /etc/vsftpd.conf

listen and local_enable are set YES
anonymous_enable is set NO

if the user has a shell /bin/sh or other /bin/bash, etc. they can log in
no problem, but either of the above simply fail.

My setup is running an Ubuntu 12.04.1 server default installation with
vsftpd-3.5-1ubuntu2 installed

** Affects: vsftpd (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  nologin shells don't allow sftp access

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