Questions tagged [vsftpd]
`vsftpd` is a fast, stable GPL-licensed FTP server for Unix/Linux systems.
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ftp over tls refused even with all ports properly forwarded
listen=NO
listen_ipv6=YES
anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
dirmessage_enable=YES
use_localtime=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
chroot_local_user=YES
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Active mode vsftpd configuration
i have a question about vsftp please !
if i use active mode for my ftp server , should i see that my vsftp server is listening on 21 and 20 port when i use netstat ??
when i test
sudo netstat -lnp | ...
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vsftpd data connections fail when using ssl
I have vsftpd version 3.0.3-12 on Debian Buster that it works when using plain ftp but it fails when using ssl:
This the config file:
listen=yes
listen_ipv6=no
user_config_dir=/etc/vsftpd
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vsftp work in terminal but not on filezilla and browser
I work under in a docker image, under a VPS!
i have install vsftp in my ubuntu 20.04! at the beginning I tested ftp 127.0.0.1 in the command line and everything goes well I created a user and I tested ...
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vsftpd says : 530 Login incorrect
i am trying to connect a ftp user
it is showing
[root@host etc]# lftp testuser@:::
Password:
lftp testuser@:::~> ls
ls: Login failed: 530 Login incorrect.
lftp testuser@:::~>
and my vsftpd....
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vsftp - win10 explore not list the linux server symbolic links
I have installed vsftpd on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS as ftp server, I can use win10 explore to access that server but the symbolic directories not being list out in file explore!
Any special setup needed to ...
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Allow ftp user to read and write his home, except some subfolders
I have vsftp installed on my webserver and I need to "jail" a specific account (say "newdev") to a folder (/var/www/[site.com]) so that account cannot read or write outside of that ...
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Trying to understand vsftpd log file
I'm currently learning Linux and using FTP however I can't make sense of the log file any help would be appreciated.
root@ubuntu:/var/log# cat vsftpd.log
Mon Jan 18 06:39:48 2021 [pid 2] CONNECT: ...
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Vsftpd : anonymous configuration for full access
I need to deploy an FTP server for intranet usages (anonymous only) and I've selected Vsftpd who seems to be easy to configure. Here's my configuration :
listen=YES
local_enable=NO
write_enable=YES
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How to make Google Authenticator work with vsftpd
I have configured google authenticator to work with ssh. It's working fine. Now I also want to extend 2FA using google authenticator to FTP users. I am using vsftp. How do I achieve that. I could not ...
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vsftpd Authenticating FTP server against Windows AD server not working Ubuntu
I'm trying to authenticate vsftpd on an Ubuntu server against my Active directory server. I have joined the domain successfully following this article:
https://nerdonthestreet.com/wiki?find=...
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How to add username or change password in vsftpd in Ubuntu 16.04?
I have gotten access to a server which is configured by another person and I am now at the point where I am not able to access through ftp due to the fact that I do not have the ftp username and ...
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Allow vsftpd user to write to their FTP root (NOT the chroot)
I have what I thought was a common problem:
I have a user joe.
Joe's home is /home/joe.
Joe needs FTP access to a directory - any one directory on the file system, just one, at my choice, and write ...
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Can't connect to Vsftpd Server - Passive reply with unroutable address
I have installed Vsftpd Server listening on port 21 in ubuntu server. I've forwarded a port in my router to forward external port 8500 to internal port 21 where my vsftpd server is listening on. ...
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VSFTPD SSL Error Ubuntu Server
Hi i create an vsftpd server in Ubuntu Server 20.04.1 LTS and i have a error, this is my confing file, the error and the comanand who i created the ssl keys. (sorry for my english, its so bad)
My ...
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chroot a ftp user to two directories [duplicate]
I have a wordpress website that is structured to be served by two directories.
www.site.com (/var/www/html/site)
static.site.com (/var/www/html/static_site)
Static is to provide images, video and so ...
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VSFTPD: set a user's default directory to NOT their chroot directory
I have a VSFTPD setup in which users are chrooted to their home directories. Standard stuff. But this requires all of their home directories to be unwritable to them (to avoid security issues.) No ...
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How to fix vsftpd error: 500 OOPS: cannot change directory
I am trying to setup vsftpd for anonymous-only, read-only access on my Ubuntu 20.04 VM. Home directory is /home/ftp/filebase. When I try to login, I get the error
500 OOPS: cannot change directory: &...
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Can't make vsftpd on kubernetes (minikube) with load balancer AND ssl work
CONTEXT
School project : to host several services on a kubernetes node minikube including a ftps server on port 21 using a load balancer. School ask us to make our own images based on Alpine.
What I ...
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VSFTPD: The data connection could not be established: ETIMEDOUT - Connection attempt timed out
On July 7, our web server was dead. We restarted it and found that it received a Kernel 41 error, but this is not our problem right now.
We have three machines on that server, one with Windows (and ...
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How to list content of a directory (vsftpd)?
This question could be a follow-up of this question. Where the OP was asking
about how to list directory contents using passive mode and specific ports.
I wonder how do I do it in active mode using ...
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Client machine unable to connect to the local ftp repository server. Writes an error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo '***', ignoring this repo
Please help me to understand where I was wrong, because I've read a lot of articles also I've seen lot's of Youtube videos, but all the time in the end I've got the same error result.
So, on my ...
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FTP connection stalls afert 6/8 minutes, afterwards remote IP is unreachable by any device within my LAN
Remote machine: a VPS running Debian 10; vsftp as ftp server.
Local machine: a Fedora 30 desktop, within my home LAN. Local router: a Technicolor AGHP, on lease from my telcom provider.
I am trying ...
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Inverse Name Search by UID (CentOS 8) - Retrieves last created with same UID
I am working with CentOS 8 and I have a problem with UIDs and User Names. I have installed VestaCP to manage my websites. The user by the name of "user123" and UID 1007 is the owner of all the ...
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How to change default directory for a vsftpd to a virtualhost folder?
I have configured multiple virtual hosts in Apache. I am creating users with useradd <username>. I want to assign the directory of the virtual host to a specific user in vsftpd. For example, ...
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Setting up google-authenticator-libpam (TOTP/HOTP) for authentication in combination with pam-mysql for vsftpd
I have a setup in which virtual users for vsftpd (latest, 3.0.3) are authenticated against a MySQL database using pam-MySQL[1]. This works perfectly fine, configured like this:
auth required /lib/...
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How to analyse vsftpd log files with goaccess
I'm trying to use goaccess log analysis tool, to analyse vsftpd FTP server's logs. I'm aware that being a web server log analyser, goaccess is not the best tool for this. That being said, it's ...
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Ftps server doesn't work properly using kubernetes [closed]
i have a problem with ftps-filezilla and Kubernetes for weeks.
CONTEXT :
I have a school project with Kubernetes and ftps. I need to create a ftps server in kubernetes in the port 21, and it needs ...
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vsftp upload to permission 777 by default
When I upload something using FTP on my ubuntu server with VSFTP it is defaulting to permission 600, how can I make it go to 777?
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Setting up virtual users with vsftpd
I'm trying to set up virtual users for an FTP server in a Linux box, but I'm not sure if the server I've picked up (vsftpd) can do what I need. My requirements are:
The FTP accounts are inside a ...
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Can't connect via FTP or SFTP to CentOS 8 server running vsftpd
I followed the guide to installing vsftp here https://www.tecmint.com/install-ftp-server-in-rhel-8/
The daemon is running:
# systemctl status vsftpd
● vsftpd.service - Vsftpd ftp daemon
Loaded: ...
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vsftpd: ftp: setsockopt (ignored): Permission denied
I'm trying to upload things to my server however I'm unable to ls inside a directory or upload a file to it.
I'm using CentOS 8, SELinux set on permisssive. The directory I want to operate on has 777 ...
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VSFTPD: 500 OOPS: unrecognised variable in config file: ssl_tlsv1_1
I am trying to setup FTPS on my AWS Linux server using VSFTPD. I have made FTP work already. Subsequently, I have followed the instruction found in various places on the Internet to enable SSL. ...
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What happens on a centos 8 server when systemd-logind is turned off?
I have a centos 8 server setup which should provide sftp (openssh) and ftp (vsftp) transfers but no login shell to multiple users.
To tell vsftpd the root for chroot jails I have to add a dot to the ...
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Cannot Chroot into a directory but can cd into it
When connecting to an SFTP server i have no problems Chrooting into the /home directory and accessing the directory i want (FileFolder). But when i attempt to configure it so it Chroots straight in to ...
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Cant restrict FTP access to www directory - CentOS7
Objective:
I am trying to create a simple sftp access to the /var/www/ directory.
My Problem:
When I login via ftp, although I get access to the /var/www/ -I have access to the root directory also.
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vsftpd chroot_local_user=YES not acting as a jail
I have vsftpd installed, and im modifying:
/etc/vsftpd.conf which ive configured as follows:
anonymous_enable=YES
local_enable=YES
chroot_local_user=YES
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Changing the root folder on my vsftp server
I new to this so followed this walkthrough to set up a vsftp server on an Ubuntu 16.04 box. With this configuration I managed to log into my ftp server and upload/download files but the thing is that ...
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SFTP error “Received unexpected end-of-file from SFTP server” on CentOS 6
I'm getting this SFTP error "Received unexpected end-of-file from SFTP server" on CentOS 6.
I've added a new user below
sudo adduser --shell /bin/false paul
sudo passwd paul
Then edited /etc/ssh/...
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how to connect user vsftpd with domain
Hi I am new to server management and I have purchased a vps from digitalocean but my main concern is that I have created a vsftpd for a user and I want my domain to point to the files uploaded in that ...
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`hosts.allow` updated by PHP not working
Good afternoon, I am working in giving logged in user controlled FTP access.
Reason: I don't want FTP access open to all IP addresses on the internet.
What I am trying to achieve is when a user logs ...
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vsftpd TLS file transfers of more than a few KBs hang at 0%
We've deployed a new FreeBSD cloud server and configured it identically to our older ones, but it doesn't do vsftpd TLS file transfers well. Files of more than a few KBs hang at 0% on every client. ...
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PASV FTP fails for wget/ftp but works for curl/lftp
I have a server running Centos 7 and vsftpd-3.0.3 (installed from source to get the latest version, though everything I describe was also applicable to the vsftpd-3.0.2 version that was previously ...
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Is it possible to configure vsftpd to CWD a chrooted user to a subdirectory upon login?
We have a system that logs into an FTP server (vsftpd on Linux), uploads a file to the default directory it lands in (it doesn't CWD) and then exits. For reasons beyond the scope of this question, it ...
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pam_userdb could not open database
In trying to set up vsftpd to use virtual users I hit this problem.
I created a database file:
db_load -T -t hash -f users.txt /etc/vsftpd/users.db
And /etc/pam.d/vsftpd:
session optional ...
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vsftpd error: 530 Login incorrect (and various others when trying other solutions on this website)
I know this question has been asked countless times already, but I feel like I've tried every possible solution and none seem to work.
Some articles I've read and tried to use:
vsftpd error 530 ...
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vsftpd cannot connect with local users
I am using arch linux as a vsftpd server can I cannot log to my local vsftpd server
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
anonymous_enable=NO
dirmessage_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
ssl_enable=...
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vsftpd - is it possible to upload local file to FTP server with filename change?
I need to upload a local file from an Ubuntu desktop to an FTP server in a one-liner, while also changing the filename to be unique - by adding a timestamp to the beginning of the filename, for ...
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vsftpd: local users are pam users
I'm a bit confused about the difference regarding vsftpd configuration between local users and virtual users. From the point of view of vsftpd, it doesn't know if a user is a local user or a virtual ...
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Show ftp user only his folder (vsftp)
I know this question has been answered few times, but I tried everything, and it still not working.
I tried to create user and chroot them to a specific folder, but after ftp, I was able to go up the ...
