On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 07:50:32AM -0700, Jeriko One wrote > Are you able to upload files from other machines than this particular > VM? I don't have any problems uploading using your config.
It fails uploading a test file from the linux machine hosting the VM. > Who owns /home/ftp? I think by default vsftpd will change the owner > to root which would cause problems. I get more verbose error messages with the linux ftp client. On the h [i3][root][/dev/shm] ftp 192.168.123.251 Connected to 192.168.123.251 (192.168.123.251). 220 (vsFTPd 3.0.2) Name (192.168.123.251:waltdnes): anonymous 530 Please login with USER and PASS. SSL not available 331 Please specify the password. Password: 230 Login successful. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> put hello.txt local: hello.txt remote: hello.txt 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV. 553 Could not create file. ftp> bye 221 Goodbye. This was with the upload dir on 192.168.123.251 with permissions 555 [d531][root][~] ll /home/ftp/ total 8 dr-xr-xr-x 2 ftp ftp 4096 Aug 3 06:41 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Aug 3 06:41 .. If I change permissions on /home/ftp to 666, I get... [i3][root][/dev/shm] ftp 192.168.123.251 Connected to 192.168.123.251 (192.168.123.251). 220 (vsFTPd 3.0.2) Name (192.168.123.251:waltdnes): anonymous 530 Please login with USER and PASS. SSL not available 331 Please specify the password. Password: 500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot() Login failed. ftp> bye How is this supposed to work anyways? Can't write to upload dir if it's not writable, but vsftpd refuses to run if the upload dir is writeable. Help. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
