Thursday, August 5, 2010

500 OOPS: cannot locate user entry:nobody

While routine examination I saw a process running on server of user nobody. I thought this user is suspicious so I killed all the processes of this user (pkill -u nobody) and then deleted the user using command (userdel -r nobody) however delete command gave me error userdel: / not owned by nobody, not removing. Due to this people are unable to connect to my server through FTP and when they try they get error like 500 OOPS: cannot locate user entry:nobody.


How to Fix: Just all add "ftp_username=nobody" in /etc/vsftp.conf. Then restart vsftpd service (service vsftpd restart).

Enjoy :)

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