vsftpd config - quick question
 

Hi All

We have Oracle Linux Enterprise 5 running.
We like to configure vsftpd so that users can download from the web browser.
We have a NFS path that we set in vsftpd.conf but for unclear reason it keeps using /var/ftp using ftp://hostname.pa.com in the web browser.

[root@hostname ~]# grep ftp /etc/passwd
ftp:x:14:50:FTP User:/var/ftp:/sbin/nologin

confirms it. But we thought we could change the default path easily in vsftpd.conf with using either one below.

local_root=/scratch/builds
anon_root=/scratch/builds

/scratch/builds is a NFS directory
[root@hostname ~]# ls -ld /scratch/builds
drwxrwxrwx 2 4294794 bin 2 Feb 20 11:19 /scratch/builds


When we use anon_root=/scratch/builds, it asks for login/password which we entered and it brings us to the user's home directory which is not what we want.

Name (hostname:root): anonymous
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable anonymous root
Login failed.



Ideally, we only want user coming to ftp://hostname.pa.com and be able to download with no prompt for login/password.

on IE, for some reason, the url must be ftp://hostname.pa.com/scratch/builds to get to /scratch/builds.
Using IE with ftp://hostname.pa.com/ shows the / directory.
How do we stop IE from showing files and folders under / and to only show at /scratch/builds ?

What are we doing wrong ?

Hi,
Newer versions of vsftpd do not allow the jail directory to be writable. So in your case, given that you want your users to be able only to d/l, you can use:
And you don't need
You can use
Regards