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Following the documentation and what are on the Internet, I installed libpam-pwdfile and here are my configurations:

# /etc/vsftpd.conf
listen_ipv6=YES
listen_port=<port>
anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022
chroot_local_user=YES
allow_writeable_chroot=YES
guest_enable=YES
guest_username=vsftpd
nopriv_user=vsftpd
hide_ids=YES
virtual_use_local_privs=YES
user_sub_token=$USER
local_root=/home/vsftpd/$USER
pam_service_name=vsftpd
utf8_filesystem=YES

and

# /etc/pam.d/vsftpd
auth required pam_pwdfile.so pwdfile /etc/vsftpd.passwd
account required pam_permit.so

and

$ useradd --home /home/vsftpd --gid <group> -m --shell /bin/false vsftpd
$ htpasswd -c -b /etc/vsftpd.passwd <virtual user> $(openssl passwd -1 -noverify <password>)

However when I connect to the FTP with <virtual user>:<password>, I constantly get 

USER <virtual user>
530 Login incorrect.

So what am I missing?

Update: I can log in normally if vsftpd is configured to use db (with db_load and pam_userdb.so) but not passwd file.

Ziyuan
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I think you're missing the -p option when invoking htpasswd

this should work:

htpasswd -c -p -b /etc/vsftpd.passwd <virtual user> $(openssl passwd -1 -noverify <password>)

see here for reference: vsftpd will not accept passwords encrypted with MD5

Spectrum7glr
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