vsftpd (w/ Fedora Core 4) File Write Problems
 

Hello.

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.

Thanks.

More details are needed.
What client are you using?
What logging mode is enabled?
Post your vsftpd.conf

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!!

thanks very much

Check your log files. Also post your vsftpd.conf

snoek-
check who owns the files that are in that home directory..

ls-la /home/oracle in a terminal window

example would be:

[root@LDC1 ~]# ls -la /home/admin
total 48
drwxr-xr-x 6 admin admin 4096 Aug 8 08:38 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Aug 8 18:10 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 admin admin 24 Aug 8 08:38 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 admin admin 191 Aug 8 08:38 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 admin admin 124 Aug 8 08:38 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 admin admin 4096 Aug 8 08:38 cgi-bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 admin admin 120 Aug 8 08:38 .gtkrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 admin admin 4096 Aug 8 08:38 homes
drwxr-xr-x 2 admin admin 4096 Aug 8 08:38 logs
drwxr-xr-x 3 admin admin 4096 Aug 8 08:38 public_html
-rw-r--r-- 1 admin admin 658 Aug 8 08:38 .zshrc

Make sure the owners match for user/group.
In my example admin is owner and also group

IF these aren't Oracle in your case, you will want to
chmod <files> oracle
chgrp <files> oracle

Could be way off but thats what I would check out!~

I've got exactly the same problem here...

Since I've upgraded to FC4 nothing but problems

A. My tty's wont do it anymore
B. Samba is working against me
C. VSFTPD is totally out of control

D. I think I'm gooing to downgrad to FC3

Same problem here, vsftpd worked in FC3, but not in FC4 ('550 errors' when uploading files).
Has anyone got it working in FC4?

Thanks.

PS going to look bug reports about vsftpd in FC4.

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.

any ideas???

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)

I got my vsftpd working by:
1) disabled selinux (from system tools -> security level)
2) restored the default vsftpd.conf (asked from a friend)

Now all uploads and features work as expected.

worked like a charm. thanx

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.

Found a solution that does not require disabling the whole selinux:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...316#post321485

Has anyone found a solution to the SELinux VSFTPd context problem?

'Disable SELinux protection for ftpd daemon' is sufficient for me. O_O

Also, I realized that you can actually write any files into any folders except the home directory, e.g. foo has his homedir at /home/foo. Using flashfxp to connect to the vsftpd will not allow me to write any shit in /home/foo but writing in /home/foo/blahblah etc are all ok. I guess this is a protection against replacing .bashrc scripts and stuff like that.

Quickie Solution to VSftpd problems in FC 4
 

Basically, Fedora works with SELinux(Security-Enhanced Linux).

This is the quick fix for the problem... Best solution would be to configure SElinux more directly for your particular use... I'm no expert in that part, hence the short quick solution here...

SELinux governss all daemon services...

You can disable SELinux protection for the ftpd daemon by executing:

% setsebool -P ftpd_disable_trans 1
% /etc/rc.d/init.d/vsftpd restart

Can't figure out whats wrong with vsftp
 

Im having problems with my ftp. I can not login through browser and can't create folder or upload to pub/*. Anyone got any ideas? Below I posted both my error and my vsftpd.conf.

Also I am running FC6
----------------------------------------------------------
200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
150 Here comes the directory listing.
Desktop
InstallShield
Picture
themes
vmware
226 Directory send OK.
ftp: 49 bytes received in 0.05Seconds 1.04Kbytes/sec.
ftp> mkdir test
257 "/home/echat/test" created
ftp> rmdir test
250 Remove directory operation successful.
ftp> cd /var/ftp/pub
250 Directory successfully changed.
ftp> mkdir test
550 Create directory operation failed.
ftp>

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anonymous_enable=YES

local_enable=YES

write_enable=YES

local_umask=022

anon_upload_enable=YES

anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES

dirmessage_enable=YES

xferlog_enable=YES

connect_from_port_20=YES

#chown_uploads=YES
#chown_username=whoever

xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log

xferlog_std_format=YES

#idle_session_timeout=600

#data_connection_timeout=120

#nopriv_user=ftpsecure

#async_abor_enable=YES

#ascii_upload_enable=YES
#ascii_download_enable=YES

ftpd_banner=Ec0mp

#deny_email_enable=YES

#banned_email_file=/etc/vsftpd/banned_emails

#chroot_list_enable=YES

#chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd/chroot_list

#ls_recurse_enable=YES

listen=YES

#listen_ipv6=YES

pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES

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NOTE: I removed all comments from the conf file to save space

By default uploading/creating directories is disabled for /var/ftp/pub.
You have to give ordinary users the rights to do that.

Open terminal as root and give everyone the right to modify the directory with the following command:

Re:
 

I have done that and still no luck, I even tried to
and about all my possible users.

I believe it has something to do with the fact that /var is a mounted partition.
I can't even login as a user and get access to /var.
Thats only through ftp by the way. I have access to /var as a user locally.
Any more ideas?

here is my permissions on ftp and such:
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 18 20:27 ftp
drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 4096 Nov 26 22:25 pub

also tried:
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Nov 18 20:27 ftp

Do you have selinux enabled?
Selinux might be blocking the write access to /var/ftp/pub. To find out try to create a dir with a user and after failure look at the system logs for selinux denials:
If selinux is the problem maker you can either disable it all together (bad if you want tougher security) or just allow the ftp part. There is a simple manual that covers how to allow ftp stuff with selinux:
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man...selinux.8.html
I think you just need to give the directory correct selinux context to have it writable in ftp:

OK I got it to work. don't know if it was the line above or
but none the less it worked

Got a list of the sebooleans:

Re::
 

Just going through my replies