On Thursday 03 Aug 2017 15:02:51 Walter Dnes wrote: > 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 ..
It could not create file because your ftp user:group do not have write permission. > 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. According to the man page here: https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd/vsftpd_conf.html " ... the anonymous ftp user must have write permission on desired upload locations." You may want to try setting file_open_mode=0777 in your vsftpd.conf and check ftp user or group have write permissions within the /home/ftp/ directory. -- Regards, Mick
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