I've setup VSFTPD so when a user connects it'll use a user_config_dir search for that connected user and setup a chroot guest session (since there are multiple FTP accounts belonging to multiple users on the server). This works fine with user names that have no special characters. To avoid collisions on usernames I'm setting up each username with a postfix '@domain.tld' - however, the custom rules in user_config_dir don't load when the user has an @ symbol in the name. Is there a way around this in VSFTPD - or a setting that needs to be switched?
vsftpd.conf
listen=YES
anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
guest_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022
dirmessage_enable=YES
use_localtime=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
chroot_local_users=YES
pam_service_name=scftp
user_config_dir=/etc/vsftpd/virtual
pam.d/scftp
auth required /lib/security/pam_userdb.so db=/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd_login
account required /lib/security/pam_userdb.so db=/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd_login
vitrtual/usernamewithoutspecialchars
write_enable=YES
anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
anon_other_write_enable=YES
anon_upload_enable=YES
local_root=/home/marco
chroot_local_user=YES
dirlist_enable=YES
download_enable=YES
guest_username=marco
virtual/[email protected]
write_enable=YES
anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
anon_other_write_enable=YES
anon_upload_enable=YES
local_root=/home/marco
chroot_local_user=YES
dirlist_enable=YES
download_enable=YES
guest_username=marco
It really just seems it won't match the FTP user [email protected] to the proper virtual file - while usernamewithoutspecialchars works just fine.
Linux filesystems can quite happily manage @ in the name of a directory so the problem you are seeing most likely is with vsftpd. Have you tried using
user.domain.tldin stead of[email protected]?You should try to use SQL or RADIUS backend for auth logins and usernames should be stored as emails in sql db . That works, ive tested it.