'553 Could not create file' in vsftpd FTP Server on CentOS 5
 

Hello all!

I'm fairly new in the Linux community and I'd like to apologize in advance in case I ask some pretty basic questions.

I'm setting up an FTP Server on a CentOS 5 box, using vsftpd.
I can have users log in and download files, but whenever I want to upload a file I get '553 Could not create file'.

Here is my vsftpd configuration file (without comments):
anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022
dirmessage_enable=NO
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log
xferlog_std_format=YES
ftpd_banner=Welcome to KDTech's FTP Site.
listen=YES
pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=NO
tcp_wrappers=YES
dirlist_enable=YES
download_enable=YES
write_enable=YES

Am I missing something?

Also, the vsftpd.log records the following information when I try to upload a file (NewText_SP.doc):

Sun Nov 25 05:19:32 2007 1 192.168.0.245 0 /home/ftp-docs/NewText_SP.doc b _ i r user1 ftp 0 * i

I have disabled SELinux too.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Probably group ownership with write access to the directory they're trying to upload. Check that and retry. Are the users logging in as anonymous?

Group ownership?
 

Hello trickykid, and thank you for your quick reply.
I think you are correct about the problem...
I've done the following regarding ownership, you can tell me if this is correct:

Created a user group and shared directory.
groupadd ftp-users
mkdir /home/ftp-docs

Made the directory accessible to the ftp-users group.
chmod 750 /home/ftp-docs
chown root:ftp-users /home/ftp-docs

Added users, and make their default directory /home/ftp-docs
useradd -g ftp-users -d /home/ftp-docs user1

Created user password
passwd user1

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Here is my mistake (I think)! :eek:

Changed the permissions of the files in the /home/ftp-docs directory for read only access by the group
[root@bigboy tmp]# chown root:ftp-users /home/ftp-docs/*
[root@bigboy tmp]# chmod 740 /home/ftp-docs/*
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What should I use here? :confused: