F16 - VSFTPd not allowing users to login

[mike cloaked]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Andy Blanchard <zocalo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Update:  This is now fixed.  The problem was that "/bin/bash" was not
> included in the file "/etc/shells".
>
> Bug 754056 has been opened against the setup RPM, which provides
> "/etc/shells", to correct this in the next release of the setup package.
>

If you find that bash is missing from the list in /etc/shells then one
way (at least in f16 x86_64 where I had a related issue) then doing as
root:
yum reinstall bash
fixed /etc/shells for me.

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mike c