ftp: 553 Could not create file.

lothario · 10-20-2006, 03:23 PM

I recently installed vsftpd.
I want to upload files to this system, making it my personal backup server.
The "/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf" file contains:

Quote:

anonymous_enable=YES
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022
anon_upload_enable=YES
anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
dirmessage_enable=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES

# chown_uploads=YES
# chown_username=whoever

xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log
xferlog_std_format=YES

# idle_session_timeout=600
# data_connection_timeout=120
# nopriv_user=ftpsecure
# async_abor_enable=YES

ascii_upload_enable=YES
ascii_download_enable=YES

# ftpd_banner=Welcome to blah FTP service.
# deny_email_enable=YES
# banned_email_file=/etc/vsftpd.banned_emails
# chroot_list_enable=YES
# chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list
# ls_recurse_enable=YES

pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=YES
listen=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES
pasv_min_port=6000
pasv_max_port=6001
anon_root=/data/vsftpd/pub/anon

But I keep getting this "553 Could not create file." message every time I try to upload a file:

Quote:

# ftp -v 192.168.2.105
Connected to 192.168.2.105.
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 (192.168.2.105:root): anonymous
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> ascii
200 Switching to ASCII mode.
ftp> put BIG_TEST_FILE
local: BIG_TEST_FILE remote: BIG_TEST_FILE
227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,2,105,23,113)
553 Could not create file.
ftp> bye

I have opened ports on the firewall of this 192.168.2.105 system.
What am I missing?

sn68 · 10-21-2006, 02:07 AM

May be the "anonymous" user does not have write permission on the server, so try logging in with a username with write permissions

rickh · 10-21-2006, 02:42 AM

Quote:

...try logging in with a username with write permissions

...or, conversely, make sure the ftp directory has world write priviledges.

lothario · 10-21-2006, 04:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sn68

May be the "anonymous" user does not have write permission on the server, so try logging in with a username with write permissions

Ok, so I logged in as the user "bob".
"bob" is an existing user with shell access and home directory.
This worked fine.

But I want to use the "anonymous" id.
I have set aside a few gigs of disk space for doing backups.
"bob" does not deserve more that his 100 meg quota.

If I change the permissions of the "/data/vsftpd/pub/anon" directory with chmod 756 then I get
500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable anonymous root

What can I do?

sn68 · 10-21-2006, 06:56 AM

Actually giving anonymous user write access and large amount of disk space is not a good idea(my opinion!). Why not create a user like "backup" and use it for backing up the way you want with whatever space you have in mind?