vsftpd local_root being ignored

marli · 06-19-2016, 05:40 PM

Hi
I am running a rasbian.
after configuring a local user and vsftpd
with
local_root=/media/usbhdd2/ftp

i log in as the user or myself, it drops me in to /

I do not want the user to have access to the root folder.
any idea why this setting is being ignored?

bathory · 06-20-2016, 02:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marli

Hi
I am running a rasbian.
after configuring a local user and vsftpd
with
local_root=/media/usbhdd2/ftp

i log in as the user or myself, it drops me in to /

I do not want the user to have access to the root folder.
any idea why this setting is being ignored?

Are you sure you're dropped in the real / of your OS?
Because once you login in a ftp server, you're chrooted in the local_root directory. So running for example pwd, you'll get just "/", which is actually the chroot directory. And "/" means that you cannot get out of it.

marli · 06-25-2016, 04:52 PM

nope ..real root
/i can see /etc etc.

Chevron7 · 06-26-2016, 08:34 AM

What value do you have for chroot_local_user? This should be YES.

bathory · 06-26-2016, 09:57 AM

@OP
Actually it's better to show us the whole vsftpd.conf

Regards