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CentOS 5 + vsftpd + upload = error

I must admit I'm fairly new to linux, but after reading lots of stuff online for the last few days, I still haven't been able to solve my problem and I'm asking for help.
I'm having a problem with uploading via ftp anonymously and/or with a user using CentOS 5.

here is what I have...

##vsftpd.conf##
anonymous_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_enable=YES
anon_upload_enable=YES
anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
anon_other_write_enable=YES
dirmessage_enable=YES
dirlist_enable=YES
no_anon_password=YES
file_open_mode=0777
guest_enable=YES
listen=yes
listen_port=21
pam_service_name=vsftpd

In the root, I have made two folders upload1 and upload2.
I have set upload with chown to ftp user and ftp group
and set upload 2 with chown to user john, and group ftp.

I have chmod both folders with 777.

When I log in as john, or anonymously, I can see and download files. But when I try to upload I get an upload not allowed message.
or with winxp:
an error occured copying a file to the Ftp Server. Make sure you have permission to put files on the server. Details:
200 switching to Binary mode
227 Entering passive mode (192,168,1,109,186,182)
553 Could not create file.

..help?

I'm experiencing the same frustrating problem...

I'm on brand new install of CentOS 5.1 with vsftpd v2.0.5 r10.el5

Here's my stuff...

/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf:

Code:

write_enable=YES

local_umask=022

anonymous_enable=YES

anon_umask=666

anon_upload_enable=YES

anon_other_write_enable=YES

anon_mkdir_write_enable=NO

anon_world_readable_only=NO

connect_from_port_20=YES

pam_service_name=vsftpd

listen=YES

no_anon_password=YES

ascii_download_enable=YES

ascii_upload_enable=YES

Here's my directory tree...

/var

Code:

total 164

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jan 16 15:20 account

drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jan 17 14:44 cache

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Nov 11 22:07 crash

drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Jan 16 15:20 db

drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Jan 16 15:20 empty

drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Jan 18 06:24 ftp

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Mar 29  2007 games

drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Jan 17 14:44 lib

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Mar 29  2007 local

drwxrwxr-x  5 root lock 4096 Jan 18 04:02 lock

drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jan 17 17:03 log

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  10 Jan 16 15:17 mail -> spool/mail

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Mar 29  2007 nis

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Mar 29  2007 opt

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Mar 29  2007 preserve

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 May 19  2007 racoon

drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Jan 18 05:56 run

drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jan 17 14:14 spool

drwxrwxrwt  2 root root 4096 Jan 17 17:35 tmp

drwxr-xr-x  6 root root 4096 Jan 16 15:20 www

drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Jan 16 15:20 yp

/var/ftp

Code:

total 24

drwxrwxrwx 2 ftp  ftp  4096 Jan 18 06:25 dropbox

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 14  2007 pub

Here's what the processes look like when the ftp client is connected after the upload attempt.

Code:

[root]# ps -ef | grep ftp

root    12346    1  0 06:40 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

nobody  12355 12346  0 06:41 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

ftp      12357 12355  0 06:41 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

root    12367 11715  0 06:41 pts/0    00:00:00 grep ftp

I'm trying to anonymously upload a new file to the folder "dropbox" and getting FTP 553 errors from both Linux and Windows IE ftp clients. I can download fine.

:o Fixed my problem after making the post above.

Found answer here...
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=945913

SELinux was interfering. Disabling SELinux in /etc/selinux/config fixed it.