http://vsftpd.beasts.org/#about vsftpd will handle: * Virtual IP configurations * Virtual users * Standalone or inetd operation * Powerful per-user configurability * Bandwidth throttling * Per-source-IP configurability * Per-source-IP limits * IPv6 * Encryption support through SSL integration ...
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FTP doesn't allow /usr/sbin/nologin user
I want to setup a ftp for couple of ftp-only users with vsftpd. I configured the FTP to enable local user access. It works fine. But once I edit the users' shell to /usr/sbin/nologin, it couldn't log ...
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Can I configure VSFTPD to listen only to localhost?
I have a legacy app that needs FTP and cannot do SFTP.
My solution is:
put an FTP server in place using VSFTPD
configure the firewall to accept port 21 connections only from localhost
Set up an SSH ...
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vsftpd ftp - restrict user to cd into directories and then do ftp
Consider the following scenario:
Once the user logs in, he enters his home directory.
say user xyz, logs in
pwd
/home/xyz
cd ftp
pwd
/home/xyz/ftp
ls
ftp1 ftp2 ftp3
Now I wish to restrict the ...
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1answer
31 views
vsftpd won't start with ssl_enable=YES. Why or where can i find logs about why?
I just configured vsftpd but if try enable ssl in the config file, my server doesn't start.
vsftpd won't start with ssl_enable=YES
What can I do about this? I thought there should some information ...
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1answer
26 views
cannot connect to ftp server from lan?
i am trying to make my ftp server accessible (for download only) by other computers on my LAN using anonymous user and without password, when i connect to it from the same pc using filezilla it works ...
2
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3answers
39 views
How to configure Web/FTP Server so that it downloads .sh files instead of showing its content
I have an FTP server (vsftpd) where there are many files of various types. Normally when you click on .tar.gz file in your browser, it starts downloading it.
The problem is when user clicks on .sh ...
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36 views
Vsftpd virtual users hidden quota?
I have a problem with vsftpd on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
I have configured vsftpd enabling virtual users, everything works fine until the size of the specific virtual users home dir reaches 40GB
then I get ...
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1answer
30 views
vsftp “Access is denied” when writing as an authenticated user
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, ...
0
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1answer
63 views
Debian: sftp-server still running after removing vsftpd?
After i removed vsftpd from my new vserver with debian5, there is still some process called sftp-server running and managing ftp-connection.
How can i turn that off? Where does it came from?
...
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2answers
41 views
VSFTPD Unable to set write permissions on folder
I've just set up my first FTP server with VSFTPD on cent os . I can connect to it fine using a user in the group ftp-users but I get read only access . I've tried several different CHMOD codes on the ...
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Resources for setting up clustered FTP servers on CentOS?
Does anyone have any resources that can lead me to a how-to or at least more information on setting up clustered FTP servers on CentOS?
I'm very new to servers in general (all I've done is set up a ...
0
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1answer
50 views
vsftpd not allowing anonymous users to append to existing files (APPE)
I have a problem with vsftpd not allowing anonymous users to append to files that they have uploaded. Uploading files initially works perfectly file. Changing the permissions on the uploaded files ...
1
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2answers
230 views
vsftpd error: 500 OOPS: vsf_sysutil_bind
I'm trying to use Filezilla on Windows to connect to a linux ec2 instance running vsftpd 2.3.5 (have also tried 2.3.2 with identical results) but the server keeps responding with 500 OOPS: ...
3
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1answer
41 views
How to set individual root folder for every ftp user other than home folder
Installed vsftpd server in Redhat Linux 5. Where, i want to give the ftp access for my developer other than home directory that is for example /var/www/ directory contains project data.
Here, how ...
0
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0answers
150 views
vsftpd upload / directory 550 permission denied (chmoded, port opened, write enabled)
Basically upload / download is somewhat blocked by 550
After much googling, i have done the following
chmod 777 -R /home/ftpRepo
open up the ports (20,21, passive, and more)
write enabled
And it ...
0
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1answer
67 views
Setting vsftpd to allow me uploading to /var/www, got 500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/root
I'm using an Amazon EC2 istance as developer and testing machine. Since i'm on windows i can't mount the virtual EBS volume for editing purposes. Too bad.
For this reason i've installed and ...
0
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1answer
28 views
Automatically convert all file and folder names to lowercase and set permissions to 644 on upload with vsftpd
I'd like to have vsftpd convert all uploaded filenames matching /home/$USER/public_html/* to lowercase, and set the permissions to 644 upon upload. Is this possible and how can I do this?
0
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2answers
155 views
VSFTPD Config for Upload of Files
I have been trying to figure out how to allow users to upload to a directory with VSFTPD on an Apache2/Redhat5.5 server. I have been trying for hours to allow anonymous users to upload. Out of ...
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0answers
131 views
Setting up VSFTPD on AWS EC2 Instance
I'm trying to set up VSFTPD passive hosting on my EC2 instance. I ran through these instructions http://www.synergycode.com/knowledgebase/blog/item/ftp-server-on-amazon-ec2 . However, when I tried to ...
0
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1answer
56 views
vsftpd not allowing local users to connect
I have CentOS running vsftpd but I am unable to connect using loccl users (local_enable=YES). If I set anonymous_enable=YES then it works just fine, but when I enter my user name and password (I don't ...
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0answers
35 views
FTP Connection Not Being Established Seemingly Randomly
The server is ubuntu linux with vsftpd.
Tried connecting remotely with windows machine using FileZilla and with Dreamweaver and both have errors. FileZilla keeps saying "Connection established, ...
2
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3answers
99 views
Error installing vsftpd from Internet repository on Ubuntu
I have an Ubuntu server. I am trying to install Vsftpd but it shows this error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package ...
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1answer
134 views
Cannot read/write FTP directory vsftpd on centos 6.0 (empty folder)
I have Centos 6.0 and installed vsftp with YUM, I added a user with Webmin panel, set its home dir to "/var/www/html" and its shell to "/bin/sh", user id is 500, user group is same as name: ...
1
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1answer
141 views
vsFTPd on Amazon Linux EC2 instance
Can anyone offer any suggestions. I have an Amazon EC2 instance running, based on the 64-bit Amazon Linux AMI. I've installed all updates using yum, and have installed PHP5.3 and the vsFTPd service.
...
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2answers
40 views
FTP disallow listing directory content , but allow uploading
I have one FTP account for customers and I want they upload files, but they should not see what already uploaded by other customers.
Is that possible?
If I will disaalow directory listing that will ...
2
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1answer
124 views
Trying to understand symlink behavior with vsftpd
I recently moved my website to a CentOS 6 VPS (from a HyperVM-enabled CentOS 5 VPS). I set up vsftpd to handle our FTP needs. I created a local user for everyone who needs to use the FTP. For my ...
1
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1answer
201 views
VsFTPd - pam_mkhomedir
I am trying to set up a FTP server that authenticates against an LDAP server. This part is done and works. My server is VsFTPd on Ubuntu Server 11.04.
But I have to create the home directories for my ...
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2answers
262 views
VsFTPd - LDAP - PAM
I am trying to configure a VsFTPd server to authenticate agains an LDAP server. It may be easy, but since it is the first time that I am using both LDAP and PAM, I have some difficulties. VsFTPd runs ...
0
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2answers
69 views
VSFTPD Ubuntu won't start on boot
I have a server running Ubuntu 11.04 Server and I have installed vsftpd (FTP).
I am trying to get vsftpd to run on startup, but can't seem to configure it right.
There is already an upstart vsftpd ...
0
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2answers
143 views
vsftpd listen on multiple listen_address but not on all
I'm looking for a way to configure vsftpd to use multiple listen_address IPs. I'm aware that if I set it to the default, it will listen on all available interface IPs, but that's not what I'm looking ...
0
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0answers
69 views
Why does Filezilla try to switch to passive mode on ports that are outside the range of my FTP server?
I have an OpenSuSE box running vsftp. It is behind a firewall at our hosting company. They control the firewall, I have no access to it. It has unrestricted access from our VPN via 10.x.x.x, and ...
1
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1answer
202 views
Connection refused after installing vsftp on Ubuntu 8.04 with fail2ban
I have been using an Ubuntu 8.04 server with fail2ban for a while now (12+ months) and using ftp over SSH without any problems. I have a new user that needs to put files onto the server from an IP ...
2
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5answers
109 views
How to own a folder and use by 3 users
3 users, 1 folder.
Users: vsftpd (FTP server), bobmarley (normal user), www-data (Apache user)
How to unite them and make so that each user can modify any of these user's data, without doing CHMOD ...
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1answer
227 views
Any alternatives to proftpd and vsftpd that is easier to configure?
I tried them both, I'm having troubles to configure them,so is there a third one that is easier to install and configure?
I'm using centos 5 64 bit xen vps
for example I'm following this tutorial, ...
0
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1answer
199 views
Configuring vsftpd
I am trying to configure an FTP server using vsftpd on my CentOS server.
I have installed the FTP server using yum install vsftpd and followed: ...
0
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1answer
52 views
Does vsftpd requires apache to work?
My friend and I have two identical CentOS 5 VPSs from the same hosting provider, his using Apache and mine using Nginx. He followed this tutorial and vsftpd worked. He tried to install vsftpd on my ...
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3answers
86 views
Allow ftp access but disable terminal access on Ubuntu
I have 2 users to whom i want to disable terminal access, but still keep ftp access.How do I achieve this?
EDIT
Forgot to mention, I'm using vsftpd.
0
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1answer
396 views
GnuTLS error -53: Error in the push function, using vsftpd
I am in the process of setting up my home FTP with virtual users on a CentOS 6.0. I am using the following guide.
I was able to run the first script vsftpd_virtual_config_withTLS.sh successfully and ...
0
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1answer
60 views
How can I prevent FTP users breaking chroot rules when using a GUI?
I've set up VSFTP on my Centos5.5 server. I've created a user on the box for ftp access. In the VSFTP config I've set:
chroot_list_enable=YES
chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list
The conf ...
1
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2answers
70 views
How do I add a new user to vsftpd and let root access the FTP server?
How can I add a new vsftpd user on CentOS 5 ? I would like that user to default to a certain directory other than its own. Note that chroot is on. Should I do something like this?
useradd vsftpuser1 ...
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1answer
46 views
ubuntu port forwarding problem
I've installed and already configured php5, mysql server & client and apache 2 on my server ubuntu (vmware). also I've installed vsftpd. when i type ifconfig it shows server IP and client ...
0
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1answer
351 views
VSFTPD - Change User Home Directory
I need to update a ftp user's home directory. Could I run the userdel command then re-add the user without losing the directory the user was attached to? Or is there another way to change the user's ...
1
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1answer
310 views
How to configure public-key authentication with vsftpd?
The documentation of vsftpd is quite good (https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd/vsftpd_conf.html), however I cannot find some details on how to use public key authentication. I know that I need ...
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2answers
117 views
centos 5.6 vsftpd default folder problem
I installed vsftpd successfully, but whenever I connect to the server via Filezilla, I see the default folder is /root. How can I set up the default folder to be /var/www once I connect?
0
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1answer
150 views
Fail2Ban does not ban VSFTPD users
He guys, i run CentOS5.6 (final), and i just installed FAIL2BAN version (0.8.4-23.el5).
I have set it up to ban SSH and VSFTPD attacks.
As you can see here: http://pastebin.com/RLyzGgBe fail2ban has ...
0
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2answers
186 views
Increase download speed of ftp server
I have a VSFTPD server running in my machine. The download speed is about 30 KB/s, which is way less than my connection speed. I understand the upload speed of the server affects the download speed on ...
1
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1answer
79 views
Using an allowed user list with VSFTPD
According to the Wiki here, you can only allow certain users to log in over FTP using the following configuration in your /etc/vsftp.conf file:
userlist_enable=YES
userlist_file=/etc/vsftp.user_list
...
0
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1answer
81 views
Unable to connect to local VSFTP server
I just installed VSFTP on my Ubuntu 10.04 server:
apt-get install vsftp
It, of course, created a new ftp user with a home directory of /srv/ftp. I didn't know what the auto-generated password was ...
2
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3answers
176 views
Allow local users to access /var/www folder in vsftpd
I have successfully installed the vsftpd. and it is live. but i get following error:
Response: 500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/sovit
what i want to do is direct all local users of the ...
1
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2answers
71 views
Troubleshooting FTP traffic not getting through
I have recently set up vsftpd and whilst everything appears to be running fine and the server is listening on the correct port I cannot connect in using FTP clients.
A connection is established but ...
