Does anyone know how to configure the VSFTPD service in Fedora 6? Also how do you make the service start at boot and make sure users are able to log in to ftp?

how you configure it depends how you want it to work... install with "yum install vfstpd" but past that you need to read the documentation for it.

If you want to start the service at boot, the Red Hat based distro syntax is

Code:

# chkconfig --levels 2345 vsftpd on

Configuring it properly will require reading the man pages and perhaps forum posts. You will probably find the configuration file in either

Code:

/etc/vsftpd.conf

or

Code:

/etc/vsftp/vsftpd.conf

Thanks this is what I was looking for. Decided to go out and buy a book today on Fedora 6 so I actually understand the commands listed here.

Glad we could help. If you have problems configuring it, please continue posting your questions here. If necessary, I can install vsftp on my Fedora Core box and see what you would need to do to configure it the way you want.

Actually I ran into a huge issue that took me a while to resolve it. I got the ftp server installed and working but when I tried logging in a local user I got an Oops: 500 error telling me Fedora couldn't change to the home directory and then it aborted the ftp session. I searched these forums and found this fix.

This was the error ----

500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/<username>
Login failed.

And this was the fix ----

/usr/sbin/setsebool -P ftp_home_dir 1

Ran this from the command line and took care of the issue. I also noticed this was a common error on a lot of Fedora machines. I found a lot of posts (other places) of people having the issue but only found the fix listed in these forums.

Thanks for taking the time to post that little gotcha. This will save countless other vsftp users a lot of time. Kudos for being a good netizen.