I have set up vsftpd for private FTP. Only authenticated users in the ftp
group can login.
Also, every user is chrooted to its home directory (/home/username
)
chroot_local_user=YES
I can log in, browse, download, but I'm not allowed to upload files. I get 550 Access is denied
message from Windows Explorer
In order to tweak I did the following:
I made sure that the directory is user-writable (chmod g-rwx o-rwx u+w -R /home/username
), I chose to do g-rwx otherwise it could be accessible via SSH by people in the users
group that don't get chrooted. I made sure that directory and children elements are owned by user (forced chown -R
as root) but they didn't help.
I found no useful thing in /var/log/messages
file. I believed that vsftpd runs as the logged in user and I found confirmation running htop
.
What kind of permission problem could cause this behaviour? If I go with SFTP with the same user I can do everything I want!
Thank you
Best Answer
There should be an option named
write_enable
in the configuration file.As stated in the manpage:
it defaults to NO, so that might be the cause.