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I need to have this site working to get support for something else but don't want to leave it wide open for them. (my logging isn't even working!)
It seems like VSFTP is not reading the config file. I'm trying to set chroot_local_user=YES but can't get it to work. (I've tested and still have access to things outside the home directory.) I've tried restarting the service (which is standalone i believe) and even the system itself. Could there be a permission problem with the config file? I've also created a sym link in /etc in case the file was expected to be there.
I haven't changed much. In fact the only thing that I want to change is have chroot_local_user=YES. The other changes such as ftpd_banner were just to test if things were changing. (which nothing did)
It starts automatically - is in my init.d. I saw the config file path in /etc/init.d/vsftpd which is /etc/vsftpd/ and is where I have the config file. Unless the path is set somewhere else? I restart the services with /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart. I hope this answers your questions and appreciate the help.
Code:
# Example config file /etc/vsftpd.conf
#
# The default compiled in settings are fairly paranoid. This sample file
# loosens things up a bit, to make the ftp daemon more usable.
# Please see vsftpd.conf.5 for all compiled in defaults.
#
# READ THIS: This example file is NOT an exhaustive list of vsftpd options.
# Please read the vsftpd.conf.5 manual page to get a full idea of vsftpd's
# capabilities.
#
# Allow anonymous FTP? (Beware - allowed by default if you comment this out).
#anonymous_enable=YES
#
# Uncomment this to allow local users to log in.
local_enable=YES
#
# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
write_enable=YES
#
# Default umask for local users is 077. You may wish to change this to 022,
# if your users expect that (022 is used by most other ftpd's)
local_umask=077
#
# Uncomment this to allow the anonymous FTP user to upload files. This only
# has an effect if the above global write enable is activated. Also, you will
# obviously need to create a directory writable by the FTP user.
#anon_upload_enable=YES
#
# Uncomment this if you want the anonymous FTP user to be able to create
# new directories.
#anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
#
# Activate directory messages - messages given to remote users when they
# go into a certain directory.
dirmessage_enable=YES
#
# Activate logging of uploads/downloads.
xferlog_enable=YES
#
# Make sure PORT transfer connections originate from port 20 (ftp-data).
connect_from_port_20=YES
#
# If you want, you can arrange for uploaded anonymous files to be owned by
# a different user. Note! Using "root" for uploaded files is not
# recommended!
#chown_uploads=YES
#chown_username=whoever
#
# You may override where the log file goes if you like. The default is shown
# below.
xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log
#
# If you want, you can have your log file in standard ftpd xferlog format
#xferlog_std_format=YES
#
# You may change the default value for timing out an idle session.
#idle_session_timeout=600
#
# You may change the default value for timing out a data connection.
#data_connection_timeout=120
#
# It is recommended that you define on your system a unique user which the
# ftp server can use as a totally isolated and unprivileged user.
#nopriv_user=ftpsecure
#
# Enable this and the server will recognise asynchronous ABOR requests. Not
# recommended for security (the code is non-trivial). Not enabling it,
# however, may confuse older FTP clients.
#async_abor_enable=YES
#
# By default the server will pretend to allow ASCII mode but in fact ignore
# the request. Turn on the below options to have the server actually do ASCII
# mangling on files when in ASCII mode.
# Beware that turning on ascii_download_enable enables malicious remote parties
# to consume your I/O resources, by issuing the command "SIZE /big/file" in
# ASCII mode.
# These ASCII options are split into upload and download because you may wish
# to enable ASCII uploads (to prevent uploaded scripts etc. from breaking),
# without the DoS risk of SIZE and ASCII downloads. ASCII mangling should be
# on the client anyway..
#ascii_upload_enable=YES
#ascii_download_enable=YES
#
# You may fully customise the login banner string:
ftpd_banner=Welcome to blah FTP service.
#
# You may specify a file of disallowed anonymous e-mail addresses. Apparently
# useful for combatting certain DoS attacks.
#deny_email_enable=YES
# (default follows)
#banned_email_file=/etc/vsftpd/banned_emails
#
# You may specify an explicit list of local users to chroot() to their home
# directory. If chroot_local_user is YES, then this list becomes a list of
# users to NOT chroot().
chroot_local_user=YES
#chroot_list_enable=YES
# (default follows)
#chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd/chroot_list
#
# You may activate the "-R" option to the builtin ls. This is disabled by
# default to avoid remote users being able to cause excessive I/O on large
# sites. However, some broken FTP clients such as "ncftp" and "mirror" assume
# the presence of the "-R" option, so there is a strong case for enabling it.
#ls_recurse_enable=YES
# Comment out this line if you are using xinetd to run this service
listen=YES
# Set file open mode to 0644
file_open_mode=0644
# The following will prevent any user but web to use ftp
userlist_enable=YES
userlist_deny=NO
# Suppress shell check
check_shell=NO
# Enable user/group names in listings
text_userdb_names=YES
# SSL
ssl_enable=YES
force_local_data_ssl=NO
force_local_logins_ssl=NO
rsa_cert_file=/etc/ssl/pem/localhost.crt
rsa_private_key_file=/etc/ssl/pem/localhost.key
If the banner does not even change, there might be another config that is used. You can run locate vsftpd.conf to see if there are multiple config files. And check the way you start the daemon; according to man vsftpd you can pass the name of the config file as a parameter to the daemon.
I'm running a Slackware 12 server and the config file is /etc/vsftpd.conf. The daemon is started through inetd.
Last edited by Wim Sturkenboom; 05-04-2008 at 01:32 AM.
Reason: added reference to man vsftpd
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