Anonymous mode for vsftpd
 

Hi,
Im using vsftpd and while I can make a connection fine, when I try to log in as a user I get an error message saying:

530 This server is anonymous only

I have enabled local access and disallowed anonymous access, but I can't log in!

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Welcome to LQ.

Can you post vsftpd.conf

Thanks. I'm just using the included conf file, but have disabled anonymous connections and have allowed local ones.

I can still post it if necessary...

Are you running it as standalone or thruogh xinetd?

If you are using xinetd I think that you need the config file to be:
/etc/vsftpd.conf

I tend to use standalone mode - just uncomment the bottom 2 lines in the config then run:
service vsftpd start

I've tried it in both, but currently in standalone.
I have the conf file in the /etc directory, is that where it should be for standalone as well as xinetd?

I'm now getting a new message after making a couple of changes:

500 OOPS: vsftpd: security: 'one_process_model' is anonymous only
Connection closed by remote host.

Can you post vsftpd.conf

anonymous_enable=YES
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
#local_umask=022
#anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
dirmessage_enable=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
#chown_uploads=YES
#chown_username=whoever
#xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log
#xferlog_std_format=YES
#idle_session_timeout=600
#data_connection_timeout=120
#nopriv_user=ftpsecure
#async_abor_enable=YES
#ascii_upload_enable=YES
#ascii_download_enable=YES
#ftpd_banner=Welcome to blah FTP service.
#banned_email_file=/etc/vsftpd.banned_emails
#chroot_list_enable=YES
#chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list
#ls_recurse_enable=YES

listen=YES

Try using:
Then restart:
service vsftpd restart

and try again.

Thanks. Getting warmer, but now it gives me the error

500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket

Any more ideas?

Got it! It was still trying to run under xinetd as well as in standalone.

Only problem now is that I can log in under my personal account, but not the main account I want to use for ftp access. Any ideas?

Thanks so much for your help!!

Ok.. fixed that too, all working now! Thanks again!!!

sierra055,

Can you post what you did to fix the problem? Someone else might see this thread and have the exact same problem - your answer may help them. Thanks.

--jeremy

After I used the .conf file that david posted, I had the problem of it vsftp trying to run under both xinetd and in standalone. I removed the files for xinetd and copied the included vsftpd.pam file to /etc/pam.d/ftp and restarted the service. Worked fine.

Good to see you got it going.

Well done!