VSFTPD file permission question

[oneirishpollack]

I setup VSftpd on my Fedora 12 box. I changed the home folder for the virtual user to "private", and did a chmod 777 on the "private" directory. So I was assuming that if I logged in as the virtual user, I should be able to write to the "private" directory. When checking directory permissions it is: drwxrwxrwx. At this point I can only read documents in this directory. When I try to transfer a file using Filezilla I receive a 550 Permission Denied error.

What am I doing wrong?

[scathefire]

is selinux running?

[oneirishpollack]

I disabled SELinux using "setenforce=0"

Below is the directory attributes:

"drwxrwxrwx. 2 root root 4096 2010-02-25 15:40 private"

[scathefire]

is write_enable set to yes inside your vsftpd settings? how about the logs? anything relevent in them?

[oneirishpollack]

This is my vsftpd.conf file:

listen=YES
anonymous_enable=YES
local_umask=22
#connect_from_port_20=YES
#dirmessage_enable=YES
#
#pam_service_name must be uncommented for local login
pam_service_name=vsftpd
xferlog_enable=YES
listen=YES
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES

[scathefire]

perhaps you are missing some lines if you are using virtual users, like:

virtual_use_local_privs=YES

for some other ideas maybe this can help you out, Setup Virtual Users and Directories in VSFTPD

[tomehb]

My permissions for the folder:

drwxr-xr-x 3 vsftpd nogroup 4096 2010-02-15 13:30 vsftpd


Inside this dir for each user.... tomehb (being me hence diff permissions)

drwxr-xr-x 2 vsftpd nogroup 4096 2010-03-01 13:38 Simon
drwxr-x--- 2 vsftpd nogroup 4096 2010-03-01 23:21 tomehb
drwxr-xr-x 2 vsftpd nogroup 4096 2010-03-01 13:37 Yanny2


Configuration from vsftpd.conf

listen=YES
anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022
dirmessage_enable=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
nopriv_user=vsftpd
chroot_local_user=YES
secure_chroot_dir=/var/run/vsftpd
pam_service_name=vsftpd
guest_enable=YES
guest_username=vsftpd
local_root=/home/vsftpd/$USER
user_sub_token=$USER
virtual_use_local_privs=YES
ftpd_banner=Welcome to Tomehbs Secure FTP.


ssl_enable=YES
ssl_tlsv1=YES
ssl_sslv2=NO
ssl_sslv3=NO
#implicit_ssl=YES
force_local_data_ssl=YES
force_local_logins_ssl=YES
rsa_cert_file=****
rsa_private_key_file=*****

[hacho]

Don't know what your use case is, but for me an FTP server is a blast from the past. I use SSH/SFTP for everything. Much more secure. Lends itself to automation easily, etc.