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I recently installed Fedora Core 4 with its server packages. I'm using vsftpd (which was installed with the FC4 distro) in attempt to set up a properly working FTP server. Here's what I've done:
(1) configured /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf to denyi anonymous access, but allow local users to log in
(2) created a user "michaelgubbels" with home dir /home/michaelgubbels
(3) restarted vsftpd
I can log in successfully but when trying to create a directory or upload files I get an error message stating "550 Create directory operation failed."
Any ideas? I would appreciate help greatly on this issue.
When you first load the directory, do you start in /home/michaelgubbels?
or more like / or somewhere else? You might be trying to write to a directory other than michaelgubbels's which would cause permission issues.
If you can see the whole server when you should only see the users directory (when logged in as the user), you might want to check into the chroot options in the conf. file as well.
I've got exactly the same problem with vsftpd on Fedora Core 4
I've opened a Terminal window on the ftp server itself so there can't be any firewall issues
the user I'm using is oracle and his home is /home/oracle - I've set vstpd.conf to write_enable=YES and local_enable=YES
when I ftp and log in as oracle my path becomes "/home/oracle" as expected. I can "ls" and "get" successfully but as soon as I try to do a "put" or "mput" I get a 553 error. If I try to do a "mkdir" then I get a 550 error
I have set /home/oracle permissions to rwx for user group and other
I have no idea what else to try - can anyone please help!!
i've also been having the same 550 and 553 error messages when uploading files and folders to my FC4 system. I'm using the default settings/vsftpd.conf file. strange cuz the default settings in FC3 worked from jumped.
Since Fedora uses a kind of 'tripwire' system to prevent some files from beeing changed, this is enabled by default in FC4.
You need to disable this security setting, and everything should work. (At least it dit overhere, but now I'm running on SuSe9.3).
I believe it's somwhere with the firewall settings. (During installation you'll be prompted for this setting)
Wouldn't a better solution be to edit the SELinux settings so the specific users, groups, etc. have permissions to the specific areas they need to access. By disabling SELinux, you've (potentially) opened the door to your system fairly wide.
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