Hi Guys,

I have setup vsftpd on my redhat rel 5 server and I can logon with a regular userid that I created, but when I create a user using the following script, it gives me "ftp 500 OOPS: cannot change directory" when I try to logon.

if [ -z $1 ]
then
echo Usage: $0 user_name passwd
exit 1
fi

if [ -e /home/ftp/jail/$1 ]
then
echo User already exists, delete user first
exit 1
fi

/usr/sbin/useradd -d /home/ftp/jail/$1 -s /dev/null -g ftp-users -m -k /home/ftp/skel $1

#mkdir /home/ftp/jail/$1
mkdir /home/ftp/jail/$1/in
mkdir /home/ftp/jail/$1/out
chown -R $1:ftp-users /home/ftp/jail/$1
echo $1 >> /etc/vsftpd.chroot_list
expect /home/ftp/scripts/changepass $1 $2


When I ftp -->

[root@wueild01 scripts]# ftp localhost
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
220 (vsFTPd 2.0.1)
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type
Name (localhostcsoper): testuser
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/ftp/jail/testuser
Login failed.
ftp>


I have chmod 777 all the dir and subdirs for these users, but still cant get in.

When I create a user without any options it can access ftp (log below), the aforesaid users still fail with that error.

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[root@wueild01 scripts]# /usr/sbin/useradd test
[root@wueild01 scripts]# passwd test
Changing password for user test.
New UNIX password:
BAD PASSWORD: it is too short
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
[root@wueild01 scripts]# ftp localhost
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
220 (vsFTPd 2.0.1)
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type
Name (localhostcsoper): test
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> ls
227 Entering Passive Mode (127,0,0,1,200,141)
150 Here comes the directory listing.
226 Directory send OK.
ftp> pwd
257 "/"
ftp> cd ..
250 Directory successfully changed.
ftp> ls
227 Entering Passive Mode (127,0,0,1,230,198)
150 Here comes the directory listing.
226 Directory send OK.
ftp>

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Can somebody help!!!!

Guys, it was a security issue.

I had to chown and chgrp the /home/jail directory for ftp-users (recursive).

Here's the command -

chgrp ftp-users /home/jail

Lesson Learnt - > Check your security of the directory Tree for your ftp Jail.

I chkd my selinux, but i had already disabled it. So it was something else in my case.
Well i fixed the problem ,while trying to work with vsftpd.
Actually the directory for the user i created (adduser ftpsharuser) had no directory inside it. i.e. /home/ftpsharuser had no directory in it.
Later i created a directory named shared ,,so it became /home/ftpsharuser/shared .
Then i chowned it to ftpsharuser (chown ftpsharuser:ftpsharuser /home/ftpsharuser/shared )
Then i commented user_config_dir=/home/blah , in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf,, and also changed "xferlog_std_format=YES" to NO
Restarted vsftpd
Thereafter when i logged in via ftp,,,there was no error (like there was one previously,,,,500 error changing directory).
So its like permission problem

first you must know any user(except anonymous) is denied to login!! because :
1-root user is in ftpuser file list and denied to login
2-until you dont use guest_enable=YES your downlevel users cant login

the error that you see is 500 OOPS .
I think it is useful to solve your problem my dear friends

Thanks!!!
I can use all with fireFTP but is there any to browse directly from the browser to upload and download

Hey linux guy i didnt get your question ??? If you are asking for a browser from where you can browse (upload/download) ftp file, then just try konqueror (default in most of distros).

No need to to disable SELinux.

Try this:

setsebool -P ftp_disable_trans=1

iptables -A INPUT -s ! 192.168.254.0/16 -p tcp --dport 21 -j REJECT

service iptables save

Hi

I'll start with telling you I'm not a Linux expert.

Changing the root folder (and all underlying folders) permissions worked for me.
The permissions on root ftp folder were:
drw-rw-r-- 6 jeezus jeezus 4096 Oct 30 22:14 jeezus

and I've changed them to:
drwxrwxr-- 6 jeezus jeezus 4096 Oct 30 22:15 jeezus

so... chmod -R 774 <ftp_root_folder>

That did the trick for me...
Cheers

disable selinux
vi /etc/selinux/config

SELINUX=disable

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