vsftpd help

[Hightower]

Hi all,

 

As some of you know (as you have helped me) I am looking at Ubuntu Server. I have successfully set up a LAMP server, but wanted to put FTP on also - vsftpd.

 

The www dir is /var/www. I have created a group ftp-users and made the member 0001 a member. This group has chmod 750 over the www folder - root is owner.

 

When I try to ftp in, using 0001 and the password for that user I get a 500 error - cannot change home directory. A Google search showed many things, alot of which was for RedHat, but I just don't understand them.

 

Can anybody help translate this error into English and maybe suggest what the issue is? (I'm looking for you webman!)

 

Thanks,

[Geoff]

Does the users home directory exist?

[Hightower]

Yes, I manually created it.

[RabbieBurns]

I find that proftpd "just works" straight after installing it. Ive not needed to look at any other.

[Hightower]

Installed it. Getting this error:

an't establish connection --> 10.33.225.237:21 @ Fri Jun 20 15:28:10 2008 (10054-38)

An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.

 

I uninstalled the vsftpd before i installed proftpd.

[RabbieBurns]

try testing it on the server thats running it

 

from command line:

 

ftp localhost

 

user

 

password

 

see if that works

[Hightower]

ftp: connect: Connection refused

 

That appears after I enter ftp localhost - doesn't let me try user and password/

[RabbieBurns]

have you started the proftpd service after installing it?

 

sudo /etc/init.d/proftpd start

[Hightower]

Yeah, tried that - came up with:

 

ProFTPd is started from inetd/xinetd.

 

Me being a novice didn't have a clue what that means.

[RabbieBurns]

It means, ( I think ) that inetd/xinetd will start a new proftpd thread for each user

 

Have you got either inetd/xinetd installed?

 

I cant remember if it gets intstalled as part of the server installation

[RabbieBurns]

cp /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf.sample /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf

 

you might need to do that too