Severity: important Package: vsftpd Version: 3.0.2-17 The vsftpd.conf(5) manual page says that the default value for the "listen" configuration file option is "NO" but in reality it's "YES", as we can see from the line 185 in tunables.c:
tunable_listen = 1; What's worse, this seems to be a change introduced during the Jessie development cycle as on the box I've upgraded to Jessie (to vsftpd 3.0.2-17) I had both "listen" and "listen_v6" commented out and using inetd for running vsftpd. The upgrade stopped vsftpd from functioning as it tried to open its port 20 for listening after being spawned by inetd, and failed, reporting "500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket" to the connected client. Hence what I would propose is to revert the change enabling "listen" by default to not break upgrades for those who relied on the defaults as they were in Wheezy and is running vsftpd via inetd. Otherwise, the manual page should be fixed and supposedly NEWS.Debian updated as well. I tried to locate the vsftpd's source code repository, but failed; the Debian's Git repo contains only the most recent version, 3.0.2, in its "upstream" branch so I have no idea how should I try to see whether vsftpd itself had its defaults for the "listen" option changed since the version packaged in Wheezy. The changelog available on the upstream website only mentions the word "listen" in the entry for some very old version -- much older than that in Wheezy. ---- (The following text discusses a problem supposedly tangential to the essense of my bug report but including it anyway.) The closest existing Debian bug I've managed to find is #574837 [1] which basically amounted with tinkering with the configuration file while not touching the code, and the code currently has tunable_listen = 1; tunable_listen_ipv6 = 0; While this might not relate to the problem at hand, I reckon the patch applied from #574837 should also be extended to reverse the values of the affected options in tunables.c, as I indicated above. 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574837 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
