vsftpd connection problem.

[Bob Hartung]

Hi all,
 I have a little ftp server set up on a home network.  I keep getting 
the following error when
I try to connect.
 "vsftpd refusing to run with writable anonymous root"

The /var/ftp/pub directory is owned by user ftp and group ftp.  I do not 
see where any rights are given to root in vsftpd.conf.
Where do I start looking?  I have read through man vsftpd_conf several 
times.

Thanks,

Bob

[Arindam Dey]

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 15:12, Bob Hartung wrote:
>  Hi all,
>   I have a little ftp server set up on a home network.  I keep getting 
>  the following error when
>  I try to connect.
>   "vsftpd refusing to run with writable anonymous root"
>  
>  The /var/ftp/pub directory is owned by user ftp and group ftp.  
And the above is your problem. It should *not* be owned by "ftp" nor
writable by user "ftp". Change the ownership. 

Dude did you even try searching using google. Good that you read the
manual and all but there is another excellent search utility GOOGLE.

[URL may be wrapped]
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=vsftpd...

See the second link pointing to a beautiful faq at vsftpdrocks.org.

Please use google before posting rudimentary questions on the mailing
list.

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[Jeff Lasman]

On Sunday 29 February 2004 11:12 pm, Bob Hartung wrote:

>  Hi all,
>   I have a little ftp server set up on a home network.  I keep getting
>  the following error when
>  I try to connect.
>   "vsftpd refusing to run with writable anonymous root" 
I googled the error message and found "http://www.vsftpdrocks.org/faq/":

<snip>
A) vsftpd is protecting against dangerous configurations. The cause of 
this message is usually dodgy ownership of the ftp home directory. The 
home directory should NOT be owned by the ftp user itself. Neither 
should it be writable by the ftp user.
</snip>

Jeff
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[Bob Hartung]

Jeff,
  Thanks.  I am new enough at this that I just "forget" to google my 
problems.

TNX

Bob

Jeff Lasman wrote:

> On Sunday 29 February 2004 11:12 pm, Bob Hartung wrote:
>
>   
>
> >Hi all,
> > I have a little ftp server set up on a home network.  I keep getting
> >the following error when
> >I try to connect.
> > "vsftpd refusing to run with writable anonymous root"
> >    
> >
>
> I googled the error message and found "http://www.vsftpdrocks.org/faq/":
>
> <snip>
> A) vsftpd is protecting against dangerous configurations. The cause of 
> this message is usually dodgy ownership of the ftp home directory. The 
> home directory should NOT be owned by the ftp user itself. Neither 
> should it be writable by the ftp user.
> </snip>
>
> Jeff
>   
>