I setup VSFTPD on my Ubuntu server 12.04, it worked very good. Until I tried to change the permissions of the user so the user couldn't go in the / directory and only in the directories inside /home/user/public_html.
It could have to do something with the fact that I did this:
sudo chmod 700 -R /
I have a user, ftpUser and he is inside a group, ftpUsers. The permissions of /home/user/public_html are:
drwxrwxr-x 9 ftpUser ftpUsers 4096
My VSFTPD file looks like this:
listen=YES
anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022
connect_from_port_20=NO
chroot_local_user=YES
pam_service=vsftpd
userlist_file=/etc/vsftpd.userlist
userlist_enable=YES
userlist_deny=NO
And in /etc/vsftpd.userlist there is only one line: ftpUser
How do I solve this so I can login, it think it has to do something with permissions but I don't now what it is!?
2 Answers
You can check this link. It worked for me.
Make sure that the user and group permissions for the account and the home directory match. For example, if you are logging in as:
account:x:521:500::/some/directory:/sbin/nologin
then make sure that the home directory defined for “account” is at least readable and executable by user 521 and group 500.
That error is generated because of Selinux. Please do the following actions:
[root@sun02 vsftpd]# getenforce
Enforcing
[root@sun02 vsftpd]# getsebool -a | grep ftp
allow_ftpd_anon_write –> off
allow_ftpd_full_access –> off
allow_ftpd_use_cifs –> off
allow_ftpd_use_nfs –> off
allow_tftp_anon_write –> off
ftp_home_dir –> off # We need to change this to on - see next command.
ftpd_disable_trans –> off
ftpd_is_daemon –> on
httpd_enable_ftp_server –> off
tftpd_disable_trans –> off
[root@sun02 vsftpd]# setsebool -P ftp_home_dir on
This is all that u want to need.
Good Luck!
source: Copied and pasted from the above link. Credits to @Jaime M. of
