Questions tagged [vsftpd]
VSFTPD ("Very Secure FTP Daemon") is an FTP server for Unix-like systems, including Linux.
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FTP unable to write to a mounted drive
I'm using Mint Linux 22.1 and vsftpd on the destination computer and Windows 11 (latest version) as the source computer. I have the following permissions. In my home directory I have a symlink to a ...
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vsftpd FTPS server does NOT allow login
I recently setup an Arch Linux server running an FTPS vsftpd server, I am more or less new to this field, especially with this program so I'm sorry if I may come off as ignorant My issue is that I ...
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How to prevent user from going to upper directory by vsftpd, in Ubuntu
The directories and the access setting is like below. /home/directoroy1 rwxr-xr-x 4 user1 user1 4096 /home rwxrwxr-x 5 root root 4096 And in vsftpd.conf, I set like below. chroot_local_user=YES ...
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configure "vsftpd" for certificate revocation
Is there a way to provide vsftpd with CRL? The man page does not seem to have any option for the same and neither googling helped. Appreciate response.
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Unable to start vsftpd.service on Centos9 Stream using Virtualbox
I'm unable to start the vsftpd.service. Here's the error I get when I try to start it Job for vsftpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status ...
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Why vsftpd don't respect passive port range?
I configure vsftpd for passive mode listen=YES log_ftp_protocol=YES pasv_enable=YES pasv_address=192.168.0.2 pasv_min_port=10090 pasv_max_port=10100 It works but use random ports! Look output of ss ...
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Would vsftpd not default to using the system username and password?
I downloaded vsftpd-3.0.5.tar.gz and successfully compiled it to generate vsftpd on computer A. Then I copied vsftpd to another computer B and created a new file called vsftpd.conf on computer A. Then,...
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FTP transfer fails unless I open an ssh session with the server
This is a strange issue. I have a centOS 7 based server with vsftpd running as the FTP server. If I use filezilla to copy a file from the centOS box to my local client the transfer fails after ...
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vsftpd FTP server on Linux
I just installed this FTP server and it works fine. I noticed that the FTP user can read an write their own directory but they can read and download other files also (owned by other users or by system)...
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Error while installing VSFTPD in passive mode - 500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket
I am trying to install and connect to FTPS server (passive mode) locally. I have read similar topics in this community, but still can't fix the problem or find an error in the vsftpd.conf. Firewall is ...
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How to enable port 21 with vsftpd
I can connect to my ftp server with port 22. but I think port 21 is not active.: Error: Connection timed out after 20 seconds of inactivity Error: Could not connect to server ufw status Status:...
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SELinux doesn't let me allow ftpd
I'm in AlmaLinuxOS 9. When I try to run setsebool -P ftpd_full_access on , it sends me a message saying boolean ftpd_full_access not defined. I don't know how could I make it working nor what's wrong.
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vsFTPd config error when using local_root=
What I am trying to achieve is the following, vsFTPd server which uses a different directory on a different mounted disk and jails each user to that directory while TLS/SSL is forced. Currently I have ...
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vsftpd custom anonymous root folder
The default folder shared for the anonymous user by vsftpd is /var/ftp. This works fine. Now I want to share a different folder. I added this line to /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf: anon_root=/data/downloads/...
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Config files not being read
This is a super issue weird that I cannot for the life of me figure out, so would be very grateful for assistance. My home server is an old Mac-Mini with 2 external HDD's in RAID1 using mdadm running ...
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