Questions tagged [vsftpd]
vsftpd is an FTP server for UNIX systems, including Linux.
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How to create FTP restricted user with vsftpd? (by terminal in Ubuntu)
I have installed ubuntu 12.04 with vsftpd. I need to create FTP users able to access only directories like /var/www/nameDirectory. I thought it was a very basic feature, but seems not I tried to use, ...
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How to open files (music, videos) from FTP directly from Explorer ( Windows Vista)
I have two computers. On the first I have Debian and on the second I have Windows Vista.
I've set up vsftpd in Debian and connected to it from Vista. I'm browsing the FTP directory from Windows ...
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How to calculate effective throughput from link speed, packet loss (%) and delay information?
I am working on a networks assignment where two linux VMs (say client and server) are connected by a bridge and I have to use ftp (vsftpd) to send a 100 MB file from client to server. I have set the ...
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Passive mode for vsftpd without SSL inside a VM
this is my scenario: someone needs to push some files from a really old mainframe that only works with plain FTP (no SSH, no SSL). In my environment, I have a VM with Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4....
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FTP User/Group permission on VSFTPD and UBUNTU
I developed a vsftp server with three user groups: g1, g2, g3. Each group has a folder with its name. For example.
/home/server/g1
/home/server/g2
/home/server/g3
Each group also has users
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Accessing VSFTP server as a different user from the user account which is currently logged in
I have a piece of a Java program that access the local FTP server (running on VSFTPD) which I use to upload and download files. I am planning this application to be remote-capable so that it can ...
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GnuTLS error -15: An unexpected TLS packet was received when setting up vsftpd with SSL
I have an Ubuntu 14.04 on EC2 with vsftpd 3.0.2
I have set up the SSL certs and my vsftpd.conf is:
listen=YES
anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
dirmessage_enable=YES
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Ubuntu 10.04 with vsftpd: Can't chown /var/www?
For the life of me, I can't seem to chown my /var/www folder on my server. i want to:
chown -R ftpuser /var/www
And it returns Invalid Argument on every file change attempt. I've tried sudo with ...
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Why would vsftpd be logging to syslog even though logging is disabled in vsftpd?
I have all logging disabled in /etc/vsftpd but for some reason it is still logging to /var/log/syslog and I can't figure out why.
root@unraid:/etc# cat /etc/vsftpd.conf
# vsftpd.conf for unRAID
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vsftpd folder/subfolders permissions
I have set-up a VSFTPD and it's working, however there is a little problem with the permissions that is acting wierd.
If I access the FTP user I created I can see all folders, subfolders and files ...
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sftp users have full access on linux running vsftpd
I've setup sftp on my linux server using vsftpd, All the required user permission, owners has been set. But, when I put following in /etc/ssh/sshd_config my ftp connection fails with broken pipe error,...
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Why is a Windows user getting permission denied attempting to connect to vsftpd server?
I have a Ubuntu 18 LTS server running vsftpd. Several users are able to use the ftp service without any issues but one user consistently gets an error attempting to connect to the server. The user ...
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FTP access to a folder but not the whole filesystem
I need to allow a third party to access the folder /var/spool/asterisk/monitor through FTP (vsftpd on CentoOS 7). I've created the user, tuned the vstfpd.conf file and the user can connect and access ...
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vsftpd cannot connect to server
# uname -a
Linux localhost 4.19.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.67-2+deb10u2 (2019-11-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux
# apt install vsftpd
I've only changed the following parameter in vi /etc/vsftpd.conf
listen=...
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vsftpd: Uploaded files 0 bytes/stuck uploads
We do have multiple servers across multiple datacenters. They all run the same configuration of vsftpd, with ssl certificates created on the same day. All certificates are self signed, but did not run ...
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Can't change directory or transfer files with vsftpd
I've installed vsftpd on my computer with Gentoo Linux. I'm connecting to it from localhost. There seems to be nothing wrong with networking or privileges, since I can log into the ftp server and ...
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Connection issue with vsftpd and ProFTPD from Windows 10
I have one server, Linux based, I use for some years like a backup cloud server. This work very well with client like Windows 7, Ubuntu and Android. But Not with Windows 10.
All programs I have used ...
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Unable to connect to vsftpd instance managed by xinetd on Centos 7
I am attempting to run an instance of vsftpd and have additional access controls and logging performed by xinetd.
On the VM running both services, I can successfully initiate a ftp connection and ...
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Listing directory on vsftpd server with FileZilla fails with "The data connection could not be established: ETIMEDOUT - Connection attempt timed out"
I am trying to setup vsftpd on my server, it works, runs and connects. But when trying to connect to the server with FileZilla, I get the following error:
Status: Connection established, waiting for ...
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How to give SFTP uploaded files sticky g+w rights
I want to provide users a personal storage to upload files to their home directory via SFTP(chrooted).
These files should then be displayed on our website to decide whether they should be imported to ...
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how to configure vsftp deny plain ftp connection
I have configure FTPS using vsftp, FTP is working perfectly fine, how do I deny the incoming connection for plain FTP and only allow FTPS connection.
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What port ranges does vsftpd use when in active mode and connect_from_port_20 is default (no)?
I am attempting to ascertain the range of ports that vsftpd will use for my particular configuration. As I mentioned above the mode is active and connect_from_port_20 is default (I believe this is "no"...
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vsftpd not working with data logger
I've got a data logger from Logic Beach "Intellilogger" that I will be using for a solar energy project. It has FTP capabilities. I have made a dummy data logger function that records date, ...
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timeout on connecting to vsftpd on Ubuntu 14.04
I have a VPS running Ubuntu 14.04. I'm trying to run a FTP server on it, using VSFTPD.
I think the server is running as it should, I can connect to it locally:
root@my-server:~# ftp <IP>
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How to customize directory permission for users from FTP
I have a directory like this
home
+-- dirA
+-- dirB
| +-- fileA
| +-- fileB
and multiple users and groups.
groupA has user1, user2, groupB has user3
I have set up permissions like these:
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Ubuntu Server 12.0.4 vsftpd timeout using external IP
I am having a problem connecting to my Ubuntu 12.0.4 server with vsftpd using my external IP. Connecting with local IP is successful. I am using FileZilla for the ftp client. I know there is a bunch ...
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Permission on create folder in ftp using vsftpd
i need create folder on FTP with permissions 755 and files with 644, so i set local_umask=02, and files are create with permissions 644 but folders stay 775, how to make folder with permissions 755, ...
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mount multiple windows shared folders in one Linux folder
As title say, im trying to mount multiple windows shared folders in one of Linux folder. I have two hard disk/drives, and in each of them have Folders that are shared. This folders i like to put on my ...
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NAT - FTPS (Error : Failed to retrieve directory list)
I have setup ftp server (Ubuntu 13.04 / Picuntu 4.4) using vsftpd. The plain FTP works perfectly fine. In order to secure the connection, I added ssl encryption. The server accepts the login ...
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local user cannot access vsftpd server
I'm currently running a vsftpd server and I added the necessary configurations in vsftpd.conf so that local users can use clients like FileZilla to manage their homes in a server. I found out that ...
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vsftpd hides certain extensions, how to disable it?
I just enabled vsftpd on my laptop (Fedora 18 if that matters and vsftpd version 3.0.2) and tried to connect to it with my Android phone: success!
Still, some minutes later, I stumbled upon a folder ...
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Setting up Apache with multiple FTP users and vsftpd
I'm trying to get my Apache setup with a single user 'ftpuser' both be able to share/access the /var/www/html directory, which contains various files/sub directories. However, when I log in via FTP ...
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Is there a size limit for pam modules run by vsftpd?
I'm writing a pam module to let users authenticate against a PostreSQL database linked to a Django site. It works fine when I let sshd use it, but whenever I try it with vsftpd I get the following ...
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FTP, CentOS and SELinux Permissions
I am trying to use vsftpd to allow a user to ftp in and edit files in /var/www/html where most files are owned by apache. So far I have used setsebool to enable system wide ftp, and I've also used ...
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how to track files in vsftpd on fedora
I installed vsftpd server on fedora. many users are uploading files. I want to track files, that means, who has uploaded the files, and I want to know the IP address of the system.
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Want FTP server (VSFTPD) configured for file sharing on fedora
I am using fedora to host a FTP server for internal use and I am using vsftpd for this.
It is using the configuration file /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf.
The configuration I am using is as follows:
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vsftpd on debian
After installing vsftpd on debian wheezy based on tutorials I have been switching off anonymous enabled, but before telneting port 21 response OK, checking again on anonymous off the availability of ...
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Receiving 530 login incorrect error for all user accounts other than my own: vsftpd Ubuntu 12.04
I just setup a vsftpd server. I have a few accounts for family and friends (actual useradd accounts) and mounted a shared directory in their home folder. However, I seem to be the only one with ftp ...
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How to set permission to ftp-user so that has FTP access to /home/another-user/www/public_html folder?
I'm a novice with Linux/Unix. Basically I'm attempting to setup a Web server, and FTP server on a Linux box via SSH.
My plan is to have Apache's root folder inside the main user account like
/home/...
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Error vsftpd ftp user could download file in any folder of linux server. How to restrict to only home/default folder?
In CentOS Linux server we have ftp software vsftpd, with this config in /etc/vsftpd.conf
anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022
dirmessage_enable=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
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VSFTPD silently drops connection
vsftpd disconnects client after login without any warnings in logs,
/etc/vsftpd.conf
anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
anon_root=/home/[username]/Public
anon_upload_enable=YES
anonymous_enable=YES
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Configuring vsftpd for anonymous uploads to a single folder
Im running a ftp server using vsftpd. this server is an anonymous public server with all the content on it only being able to be downloaded.
I want to create a new "uploads" folder, which ...
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vsftpd getting user home directory
I have a vsftpd setup in a container. An issue was raised that one of the ftp user can access above his own home directory, even chroot is configured.
in /etc/passwd of container
ftpuser1:x:996:996::/...
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Connection attempt failed with "ETIMEDOUT - Connection attempt > timed out
I have installed vsftp. Sometime my ftp is working but sometimes not. I am getting error
Status: Connection attempt failed with "ETIMEDOUT - Connection attempt
timed out".
I have talked to ...
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Is it safe to enable the guest_enable feature in vsftpd?
Based on the vsftpd configuration document, if we set 'guest_enable' configuration to 'YES' it will classify every non-anonymous login as the guest user which is defined in 'guest_username' So it ...
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Vsftpd 3.0.5 won’t allow virtual users login
I’m trying to deploy the latest version of vsftpd and having difficulties with configuring virtual users and logging in to the FTP with them. I keep getting error 530 even though the users and ...
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Revoke FTP permissions to subfolder for a certain user
I'm working in a web project to which several people can access to the FTP.
There is a particular user that should no access to a certain sub-folder, so I would like to revoke the access to it.
The ...
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How can I use Blowfish cipher algorithm for securing FTP connection in a vsftpd service?
I need to implement an SFTP server that uses Blowfish as the cipher algorithm for the communications. The FTP server will be in an Ubuntu OS. I initially installed vsftpd service and I'm trying to ...
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Cannot access FTP (vsdtpd) from LAN using public address. Works from WAN
I cannot access my ftp server (vsftpd) from LAN network (the same where server is running) using public IP address. It works only through local IP. Works through public IP, but outside my network.
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Cannot connect to VSFTPD on port 21
I have installed vsftpd on my Linux Ubuntu 21.04 instance using the following:
sudo apt-get install vsftpd
I have enabled FTP in my ufw firewall using the following:
sudo ufw allow ftp
My /etc/...
