On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:43:32 -0800, Greg rearranged some electrons to say:
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> There it is. It is weird though, anything requiring a password remotely
> hangs a little bit. Even when I ssh in it takes a bit more time than
> normal.
"Hangs a little bit?" Earlier you said it times out. Which is it?
Since you have "userlist_enable" turned on, read carefully the man page
on how that works. What's in /etc/vsftpd/user_list ?