On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Garrison wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 04:16:57 +0000, Whoever wrote:
>
> >> Might there be a way to get vsftpd to log "Permission denied" attempts as
> >> well as "Login incorrect" attempts?
> >>
> >> Permission denied = username is not allowed to log in
> >> Login incorrect = good username, bad password
> >
> > Look for "authentication failure" and "user unknown" in your logfile
>
> There are no such entries for vsftpd, "Login incorrect" messages to the
> client yield "[user] FAIL LOGIN" messages in vsftpd.log
>
> If it was logging, I'd see it.

I am using vsftpd on a gentoo system and I see the above messages (both)
if an attempt is made to login with a non-existent username.

Did you build vsftp with support for PAM? What logging do you have enabled
in your vsftp.conf file?

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