vsftpd is a GPL licensed FTP server for UNIX systems, including Linux; it is the default FTP daemon for distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux amongst others.

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vsftpd - PAM - MySQL and pam_mkhomedir to create directories

I've been successfully using vsftpd with virtual users connecting with PAM to my mysql DB. Now I'd like to automate creation of user directories with successful vsftpd connection. Here is ...
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Issues with VSFTPD / FTP on Linux Ubuntu server - Steps for Troubleshooting?

I am dealing with an issue I am unclear on how to resolve and have been pulling my hair out for some time. I have been trying to configure an FTP user using the following (we use this same ...
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VSFTPD - FTP over TLS - Upload stops after exactly 82k?

I installed a VSFTP daemon on a CentOS server, using a RSA certificate for logging in using explicit TLS. Now, I cannot upload more than 82k. With files under that limit, there is no problem. The FTP ...
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Can't mv files between directories on vsftpd

I enabled this in vsftpd.conf chroot_local_user=YES chroot_list_enable=YES chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list user_config_dir=/etc/vsftpd_user_conf and here is the user ...
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vsftpd with pam_winbind.so

I'm trying to setup vsftpd to use logins from our domain. I want the ftp users to be able to login using their active directory username/password and have be able to have full access to ...
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Passive FTP that would work inside and outside of NAT

I'm using vsftpd 2.2.2 behind the NAT. To make it work, I set pasv_address to my external (internet) IP. Now the problem is with clients that connect it through the LAN - they try to connect to the ...
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Centos 6.3 vsftp unable to upload file to apache webserver

I am new to Centos, I did work with Sun Solaris and upload files to Apache web server before. I create an end user account and manage to ftp using command prompt to the server, error message is '226 ...
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VSFTPD does not allow upload with virtual users

I am attempting to setup VSFTPD with virtual users on a server running Ubuntu 12.04. I have configured the server to allow for virtual users to login, but I am having trouble getting it to allow ...
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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 ...
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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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Fedora Core 13 and VSFTPD issues

I am running Fedora Core 13 and I have vsftpd (vsftpd-2.2.2-7.fc13.x86_64) up and running, and I can login, but it keeps hanging: $ ftp xxx.local Connected to xxx.local. 220 (vsFTPd 2.2.2) Name ...
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How can I pick up vsftpd logins with auditd and its prelude plugin?

I have a server running auditd and prelude with the audisdp-prelude plugin. Currently I get events for several types of logins, like sshd and gdm. However I don't seem to ever get login info for ...
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Does vsftpd support Clear Command Channel (CCC)?

Does the VSFTPD server support Clear Command Channel (CCC) per RFC 2228? If it does support CCC, does it need to be enabled? Or, is it enabled with the whole FTPS suite of configuration parameters?
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vsftpd can't access from linux

I have ubuntu 12.04 lts server with vsftpd-ext installed (for allow-writable-chroot). it has been working solid, even with ftps support(I have my manually signed certificate for this). until now I ...
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FTP server for LAN-only use— Write-permission issue in /var/www/

I'm trying to setup an FTP server so that any machine on the network can upload files to my /var/www/ on my Ubuntu 13.04 LAMP server -- with or without authentication. I've spent most of the day ...
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vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot

I want to setup a anonymous only ftp server (able to upload files). Here is my config file: listen=YES anonymous_enable=YES anon_root=/var/www/ftp local_enable=YES write_enable=YESr. ...
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Set FTP User default directory to /var/www Ubuntu Server

Trying to figure out the best way to set the default directory for the few FTP users we have (3 in-house developers who need access simply to the WWW directory). Want to just set it so that if any of ...
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VSFTPD Virtual User Group

Currently I have a vsftpd server on a CentOS machine with virtual users. The users are authenticated using MySQL. The users have all the permissions in their home directory and they are jailed into ...
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Configure FTP Server with two different IP addresses on different subnets and separate NICs

I have an FTP server that's on a low bandwidth connection. We want to set it up with a second IP address on a much higher bandwidth connection. I set up the second interface with a static IP address ...
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Cannot Connect to VSFTP outside of network

I am having a hair pulling issue with my VSFTPD. I am not sure where to turn and I have went through to make sure everything is working properly and when trying to connect to ftp using ftp localhost ...
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VSFTPD (CentOS 5)

I can create (mkdir) folder & upload (put) file into "/home/my_ftp_folder" thru terminal, but I don't know why I can't remove folder, remove file I uploaded.
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GRSEC Not allowing Active FTP on Privileged ports

I've been testing an issue with FTP Active transfers recently and I've narrowed down a problem. On my GRSEC enabled kernel, FTP Active transfers fail to establish on Privileged ports. Using identical ...
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vsftp change user ownership

In vsftpd, I would like to have user upload file directly to web directory(/var/www/site/) however, the web directory is owned by www user and group. I know there is chown_username and such thing ...
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Adding existing user to existing group and providing permissions

can someone shed some light on this issue I've set up and installed vsftpd. Created a user ftp-user and created a home directory, so they can log in, and just have access to drop their files here. ...
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How to confine FTP users to a root directory securely

I need to provide multiple users FTP logins, some able to write, some only to read, to a single FTP root directory. I very much want to restrict access so that they cannot see the file system above ...
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Windows Azure Ubuntu - 500 OOPS: priv_sock_get_cmd error while making an FTP connection

I have created a VM on Windows Azure and running Ubuntu on that I have been able to successfully communicate using the http protocol on port 80 However, I am not able to make a successful FTP ...
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Debian linux server upload speed is limited for one connection but not multiple

Ok..I have a server that is running Debian linux, opensshd, vsftpd. This server has a 1Gb upload pipe, and my clients pipe is 2.5mb downstream. The issue is that I can download something from that ...
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s3fs-mounted S3 bucket shows bad filesizes

Background: I have an Amazon S3 bucket with data uploaded using the AWS web interface. Now I need to give permissions-based access to paths within my buckets to FTP users. To do this, I'm running ...
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Centos 6 vsftp server

I have installed vsftpd server in my centos 6 server. I created three users.first user can access the ftp server using his system password.All the users are in chroot_list. when the second user is ...
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freebsd/vsftpd: file size greater 64kb upload not completing

For very few customers, we are having problem in uploading any file greater then 64 kb. The server OS is FreeBSD running vsftpd over ssl. When we move these customers to a ftps server hosted on ...
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FTP proxy with SSL support

I have a bunch of LXC containers with vsftpd daemon installed on each. I would like to forward/proxy traffic from dom0 server port 21 to particular containers based on ftp user name e.g. ...
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vsftpd failures

We have a user who is connecting with an automated program to our vsftp daemon - every 3 minutes, sending us a batch of files (about 10 - 20 files). 99% of the time, this works great. Every once in ...
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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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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 ...
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FTP Daemon that support TLS/SSL over FXP?

I'm searching an ftp daemon that can support SSL/TLS over FXP using CPASV (or/and) SSCN and whos name is not "glftpd" or "drftpd". Any suggestions? Thanks in advance
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How can I tell SELinux to give vsftpd write access in a specific directory?

I've set up vsftpd on my Fedora 12 server, and I'd like to have the following configuration. Each user should have access to: his home directory (/home/USER); the web directory I created for him ...
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533 error file when ftp users upload into directory

been trying to solve this ftp error for a while, im using vsftpd in centos and i get the error whenever i upload something on my ftp users directory. i have chmod 777 /home/ftp directory and assigned ...
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Vsftpd crashing often and changing PID

I have a server setup with vsftpd as FTP server and monit as server watchdog for vsftpd and other servers. I have received complaints about FTP sessions crashing often. The FTP server is highly ...
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FTP directories acces control

i want to mount a FTP server with vsftpd. My requirements are: -Six different folders where is stored all information according to what is it about. -Seven users with access to some of the last ...
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VSFTPD Uploading Permissions

I currently am running an Apache2 server. I have an FTP client (vsftpd). I have a user for the FTP using Dreamweaver. This user is added to the groups sudo and www-data. When I connect to the server ...
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ftp server - different directory for users

I switched from a filezilla-windows setup to a vsftpd-ubuntu setup In filezilla, I could simply create a user from the gui and assign a home directory to the user and the home directory could be ...
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Setup vsftpd server with admin account

I have setup vsftpd server and everything runs fine. However I would like to switch to a better user management with an admin user to be able to manage root www folder for example. Other users will ...
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VSFTPD : chroot to subdirectory of directory owned by other FTP user?

I've got a webserver which hosts a website. The website is located in /home/website. This folder is owned by root (subfolders owned by website), as I currently have set up vsftpd to chroot the user ...
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VSFTP - Can create files but NOT directory

till yesterday worked perfectly but today (dunno why) my VSFTP server doesn't work properly. OS: Debian 6 The problem is: I can't create other directories (with logged users) but I can rename them ...
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Pam module that allows for non-standard username characters?

does anyone here know of a PAM module that would allow me to use non-unix-kosher characters in a username? I have to migrate a bunch of people from some FTP host to the server with VSFTPd I setup; the ...
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Vsftpd anonymous download error 601

I have a vsftpd on a Ubuntu 12.04 install when downloading the files through chrome as anonymous they download when they are drag-and-dropped onto the desktop, however when the files are clicked this ...
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Error 500: cannot change directory:/home/user/public_html, VSFTPD

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 ...
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Set permissions for more than one user in a directory with FTP and Apache support

As many here may knows cPanel allows many users to access to their home directory using FTP accounts or even SSH if it's allowed. I've my own development server at office and I'm trying to setup the ...
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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 ...
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FTP “550 Failed to change directory” on Centos 6.3

I am running a VPS which runs Centos 6.3. I have installed vsFTP which is working fine. I have been able to connect to the FTP and also login with the necessary credentials. However, I am unable to ...

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