Bug 111555 - Dueling user blacklists sucks
Summary: Dueling user blacklists sucks
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: vsftpd
Version: 1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Radek Vokál
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-12-05 13:49 UTC by Chris Ricker
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-09-16 08:49:47 UTC
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Description Chris Ricker 2003-12-05 13:49:56 UTC
Is there any logical reason for having both /etc/vsftpd.ftpusers and
/etc/vsftpd.user_list, and requiring both to be edited by default to
allow access?

I think vsftpd.user_list should be killed, and go back to the RHL <=9
behavior of just one blacklist by default

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2003-12-05 16:03:23 UTC
Hm, well, the issue is that the semantics of vsftpd.user_list change
depending on the config, so it sometimes needs to be separate.

Comment 2 Chris Ricker 2003-12-08 15:40:49 UTC
But in the current default cocnfiguration, vsftpd.ftpusers and
vsftpd.user_list are completely redundant. vsftpd.user_list should be
disabled by default, since it only gets interesting when configured
differently than the current default (and in which case, it should
have different contents)....

I agree that both can be useful if one's a whitelist and the other's a
blacklist. Currently they're just duplicate blacklists, which is pointless

Comment 3 Radek Vokál 2004-09-16 08:49:47 UTC
vsftpd.ftpusers is black list only, OTOH vsftpd.user_list can be used
as a white list or black list according to configuration. But it can't
serve both list in one file, that's why ftpusers file is still needed. 


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