Ftp Error 500 Vsftpd
in. 500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot () This is due to the following update: - Add stronger checks for the configuration error of running with a writeable root directory inside a chroot(). This may bite people who carelessly turned on chroot_local_user but such is life. The problem is that your users root directory is writable, which isn't allowed when using chroot restrictions in the new update. To fix this you must either remove write permissions on the users root directory with the following command, replacing the directory with your users root: chmod a-w /home/user Or you can work around this security check by adding either of the two below into your configuration file. For the standard vsFTPd build (vsftpd): allow_writeable_chroot=YES For the extended vsFTPd build (vsftpd-ext): allow_writable_chroot=YES Removing the write permission on the root isn't a perfect solution as doing this can cause a few problems with things that need to write to the root directory, such as the bash history file or some graphical environments. Dmitriy has suggested 3 ways to also overcome this problem, be sure to check them out. 101 Comments Posted by Ben in Linux Tagged 500 oops, chroot, vsftpd 101 Comments Nick January 10, 2012 at 6:38 pm This solution will then prevent user from uploading any files since they won't have write access to the directory. How do you solve if the purpose of the FTP access is to allow uploading of files? Ben January 10, 2012 at 6:46 pm It will only prevent uploading files to the users root directory, not any sub-directories. I didn't have this issue as I don't write to the root directory but instead have various sub-directories for each website. I'm going to assume that this is the only way of working around this unless you compile from source and remove that part of the update yourself. Nick January 10, 2012 at 8:42 pm Thanks. Seems strange to require that a person CD into a subdirectory in order to upload files. I tried setting local_root to something other than the user's home directory -- but that still creates the same error -- because after the FTP connection is established it does a chroot() to that new directory. Seems like vsftpd works hard to require a person to explicitly CD into a subdirectory before uploading files. Is this some new FTP security best practice? Or just a vsftpd oddity? I haven't t
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Start here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have http://serverfault.com/questions/354671/ubuntu-vsftpd-server-error-500-oops-could-not-read-chroot-list-file-etc-vsf Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Server Fault Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Server Fault is a question and answer site for system and network administrators. Join them; it only ftp error takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Ubuntu vsftpd server error: 500 OOPS: could not read chroot() list file:/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list up vote 1 down vote favorite I configured an FTP server for Ubuntu using vsftpd. However, I ftp error 500 can't access the server. Status: Connecting to IP Status: Connection established, waiting for welcome message... Response: 220 (vsFTPd 2.3.2) Command: USER userhere Response: 331 Please specify the password. Command: PASS *************** Response: 500 OOPS: could not read chroot() list file:/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list Error: Critical error Error: Could not connect to server EDIT The problem was solved ! Comment the line chroot_list_enable=YES ubuntu ftp vsftpd share|improve this question edited Feb 26 at 23:03 Castaglia 1,8672522 asked Jan 29 '12 at 1:33 gustavosiq 11136 I'd say this is more like disabling the feature, it's not fixing the problem. But it doesn't matter if your FTP server now do what you want it to :-) About the answer, instead of editing your main post, mark the answer you used as being the answer :) –Frands Hansen Jan 29 '12 at 9:42 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 3 down vote Quick fix would be to disable chroot_list_enable switch in your conf file for Vsftpd( usually in /etc/vsftpd.co