unable to upload files with RH9 & Vsftpd
 

I'm getting a headache. I've been trying to figure out how to upload files to my vsftp server without success.

I have userA that maps to the guest_username westcoftp. Both userA and westcoftp are members of webgroup.

vsftpd.conf:

# Access rights
anon_upload_enable=NO
anon_mkdir_write_enable=NO
anon_other_write_enable=NO

anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022
local_root=/var/ftp/pub
userlist_enable=YES
userlist_deny=YES
chroot_local_user=YES
guest_enable=YES
guest_username=westcoftp
pam_service_name=vsftpd
user_config_dir=/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd_user_conf
# Security
#anon_world_readable_only=YES
connect_from_port_20=NO
hide_ids=NO
pasv_min_port=50000
pasv_max_port=60000

# Features
xferlog_enable=YES
ls_recurse_enable=NO
async_abor_enable=YES
ftpd_banner=Welcome to PISA FTP service.

idle_session_timeout=120
data_connection_timeout=300
accept_timeout=60
connect_timeout=60
anon_max_rate=50000
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userA has the following in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd_user_conf/userA -

local_root=/home/www
write_enable=YES
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Lessee.. what else.. The userA does exist in the chroot...
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I've tried this permission:
drwxrwxrwx 5 westcoftp webgroup 4096 Oct 27 13:08 www

(pwd: /home/www)

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ftp dialog:
ftp> pwd
257 "/"
ftp> put bookmarks.html
local: bookmarks.html remote: bookmarks.html
227 Entering Passive Mode (150,199,178,70,218,121)
550 Permission denied.

/ is actually /home/www and has permission of 777 as you saw in above example.

I am TOTALLY stumped now.

Sanity check: Am I missing something really obvious?

THANKS IN ADVANCE!

WITHOUT FAIL!!!! Everytime I struggle ALL DAY, sometimes ALL WEEK, and searching linuxquestions.org and all that stuff, I find my problem:

userA needs this: in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd/user_config/userA
anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
anon_other_write_enable=YES
anon_upload_enable=YES
local_root=/home/www
write_enable=YES
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d'0h!!

I wish it was clearer that you need to turn ON "anon_" stuff for LOCAL USERS.. It just seemed like bad logic to turn on anoymous stuff for USERS... Sheesh. (banging head on desk)

This post lead to my eureka moment:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=65393

I DID see it several times, but I guess the last and most recent time just now did the trick, since I have been struggling with this and slowly learning the ins and outs... then THIS post finallymade sense!

Thanks!