> We've got a server running ProFTPd that uses an OpenLDAP server
> for authentication. I want to migrate this over to EL5 and VSFTPd.
> I've googled and found many references to getting VSFTPd to work
> with LDAP via PAM but the problem is that the system itself *must
> not* use LDAP for non-FTP logins.
I don't see why this is a problem. If you modify /etc/pam.d/vsftpd
to allow LDAP logins, but don't touch system-auth, then your system
can be not using PAM, while vsftpd happily is.
I do this for lots of services... (but not vsftpd)
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Sam