vsftp and /etc/shells

I discovered today that there are a couple of issues with using local accounts with VSFTP. The first issue which is obvious is that local_enable=YES needs to be set in the vsftpd.conf file. The other issue that is not as obvious is that if you have a local user that has a shell set to /bin/false or /sbin/nologin, that user will get a incorrect login error when they try to login. The thing I did to fix this problem was added /sbin/nologin to /etc/shells. This worked on a SUSE Linux Enterprse Server 10 (SLES 10) server. The simple command that I used to do this was:

#echo /sbin/nologin >> /etc/shells