what is ftp username and password for vsftpd?

Question

I installed VSFTPD on ubuntu 12.04, and now how do I log in? Which username and password do I use? I tried using root and the password for root, but that didn't work.

Solution

If you installed with the default vsftpd configuration, then you should be able to login using any valid local user account on the target machine. If that doesn't work, then check that local_enable=YES is set in the /etc/vsftpd.conf file and restart the vsftpd service.