Ftp – 530 Permission Denied when trying to log onto FTP

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I recently installed VSFTPD and added a user with the following commands:

useradd -G ftpusers -d /var/www someuser
passwd someuser

I also added someuser to user_list and confirmed that it does not exist in ftpusers. When I try to log in using FireFTP I get a 530 Permission Denied error. vsftpd.conf has been set to anonymous_enable=NO but when it was set to YES, I was able to successfully log in anonymously.

Am I missing something? Should I be setting ownership of /var/www or something else?

EDIT: I've tried taking root off of ftpusers but even when attempting to sign in with root I get a permission denied error. This would lead me to believe there's something wrong with my vsftpd or server configuration and not the way the user is set up.

Best Answer

I set up an FTP server in Ubuntu using something like this guide and mine works well:

http://cviorel.easyblog.ro/2009/03/05/how-to-setup-vsftpd-ftp-on-ubuntu-linux

Does anything here help?

On another note, you should not change the owner of /var/www. As long as your group ftpusers has access to to it and vsftpd is running as a user that is a member of the group you should be fine.

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