Linux – FTP uploads have incorrect permissions when using vsftpd

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I recently set up an FTP site using VSFTPD on Debian, and am running into an issue with uploaded directories not being able to be accessed. Files are okay but when I try to upload a directory or change into a freshly uploaded empty directory, I get the following error:

Failed to change directory.

If I go in through the shell as and chmod the correct permissions, I can access the directory with no issues. If I go in through the shell and make a new directory, there is also no issue with it, this issue only seems to be on directories uploaded via an FTP client.

Any help on this is greatly appreciated. I am running Debian 7.5 (Wheezy) and the client I am using to connect is WinSCP from a Windows 7 system. I am using a chroot jail, where the the user is jailed to their home directory (which is not writeable).

Best Answer

Well, I think there may be two causes:

You log in to the FTP server as anonymous, but the uploaded directories are chown'ed to another user, and they have permissions 0600, so they become unavailable to ftp (or another user set by ftp_username) to which anonymous users are mapped by the vsftpd daemon.

Try to set the following in your vsftpd.conf:
```
chown_uploads=YES
chown_upload_mode=0644
chown_username=ftp
```
Note that you may want to change ftp to something else if you already changed ftp_username or guest_username.
You said that uploaded files are OK, but directories are broken. That makes me think that there is something wrong with umask, perhaps it is set to something like 011 or 033 that causes the execute bit to be disabled, and therefore you cannot list directories.

Try to fix that by setting umask values to 022 in the vsftpd.conf:
```
anon_umask=022
local_umask=022
```

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In your vsftpd.conf:

 chown_uploads=YES
 chown_username=ftp
 chown_upload_mode=640

For the group, use the set-user-ID bit on the incoming directory (chgrp mygroup incoming && chmod g+s incoming/)

Linux – FTP permissions problem

I've used vsftpd on Ubuntu in the past, and by default it is locked down to prevent any kind of write access regardless of the permissions. To fix this you need to make sure the following line in /etc/vsftpd.conf is uncommented and then restart vsftpd:

First, from a terminal window, edit the config file for vsftpd:

sudo nano /etc/vsftpd.conf

Or you can use gedit to alter the file if you prefer:

gksudo gedit /etc/vsftpd.conf

Then find the following section:

# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
#write_enable=YES

and change it to this (remove the # in front of the second line) and make sure it is set to YES:

# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
write_enable=YES

And then restart your vsftpd process (or just reboot your computer):

 sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart

And then you should have write access as long as your user has the correct permissions.

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