Re: vsftpd connection problem.

[Arindam Dey <adey komnas com>]

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 15:12, Bob Hartung wrote:
> Hi all,
>  I have a little ftp server set up on a home network.  I keep getting 
> the following error when
> I try to connect.
>  "vsftpd refusing to run with writable anonymous root"
> 
> The /var/ftp/pub directory is owned by user ftp and group ftp. 

And the above is your problem. It should *not* be owned by "ftp" nor
writable by user "ftp". Change the ownership. 

Dude did you even try searching using google. Good that you read the
manual and all but there is another excellent search utility GOOGLE.

[URL may be wrapped]
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=vsftpd+refusing+to+run+with+writable+anonymous+root&btnG=Google+Search

See the second link pointing to a beautiful faq at vsftpdrocks.org.

Please use google before posting rudimentary questions on the mailing
list.

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Arindam Dey

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