VSFTPd problem

[Fajar Priyanto]

On Wednesday 07 September 2005 13:50, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with vsftpd. While users can login and download, they
> cannot upload to their home directories. What I've done is this.
>
> 1. Clean install of FC4 then updated.
> 2. Edited the vsftpd.conf file to disallow all anon attempts
> 3. Created a new test account and wrote a test file for that account
> (hello world in a text file!)
> 4. Restarted vsftpd
> 5. From another machine, logged in.
> 6. Downloaded a test file.
> 7. Attempt to delete test file on the server, no go
> 8. Attempt to write a file to the the server, no go
>
> I've never had this problem before with vsftpd and am using the default
> security settings (firewall on, set for ftp, www, ssh and ntp ports to
> be open and SELinux to be nice).
>
> Second to this, how do I get it to allow passive transfers? proftpd
> seemed to do this by default (IIRC), but I can't get vsftpd to do it.
>
> Any help would be appreciated and if you're in the Salford area of
> Manchester, beer provided :-)
>
> TTFN
>
> Paul

You should make sure that the permission (owner, mode) of the file belongs to 
the test user.

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