FTP Issue From One Server To Anothe Server

I am trying to allow local users to us the ftp for my site (really, any user would work, I just thought this would be easiest). I am trying to make it so that I can upload themes, install plugins, etc on a WordPress site hosted on my Ubuntu 14.04 machine. Here is the contents of my vsftpd.conf file from /etc/

# Example config file /etc/vsftpd.conf
#
# The default compiled in settings are fairly paranoid. This sample file
# loosens things up a bit, to make the ftp daemon more usable.
# Please see vsftpd.conf.5 for all compiled in defaults.
#
# READ THIS: This example file is NOT an exhaustive list of vsftpd options.
# Please read the vsftpd.conf.5 manual page to get a full idea of vsftpd's
# capabilities.
#
#
# Run standalone? vsftpd can run either from an inetd or as a standalone
# daemon started from an initscript.
listen=YES
#
# Run standalone with IPv6?
# Like the listen parameter, except vsftpd will listen on an IPv6 socket
# instead of an IPv4 one. This parameter and the listen parameter are mutually
# exclusive.
#listen_ipv6=YES
#
# Allow anonymous FTP? (Disabled by default)
anonymous_enable=NO
#
# Uncomment this to allow local users to log in.
local_enable=YES
#
# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
write_enable=YES
#
# Default umask for local users is 077. You may wish to change this to 022,
# if your users expect that (022 is used by most other ftpd's)
local_umask=022
#
# Uncomment this to allow the anonymous FTP user to upload files. This only
# has an effect if the above global write enable is activated. Also, you will
# obviously need to create a directory writable by the FTP user.
#anon_upload_enable=YES
#
# Uncomment this if you want the anonymous FTP user to be able to create
# new directories.
#anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
#
# Activate directory messages - messages given to remote users when they
# go into a certain directory.
dirmessage_enable=YES
#
# If enabled, vsftpd will display directory listings with the time
# in your local time zone. The default is to display GMT. The
# times returned by the MDTM FTP command are also affected by this
# option.
use_localtime=YES
#
# Activate logging of uploads/downloads.
xferlog_enable=YES
#
# Make sure PORT transfer connections originate from port 20 (ftp-data).
connect_from_port_20=YES
#
# If you want, you can arrange for uploaded anonymous files to be owned by
# a different user. Note! Using "root" for uploaded files is not
# recommended!
#chown_uploads=YES
#chown_username=whoever
#
# You may override where the log file goes if you like. The default is shown
# below.
#xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log
#
# If you want, you can have your log file in standard ftpd xferlog format.
# Note that the default log file location is /var/log/xferlog in this case.
#xferlog_std_format=YES
#
# You may change the default value for timing out an idle session.
#idle_session_timeout=600
#
# You may change the default value for timing out a data connection.
#data_connection_timeout=120
#
# It is recommended that you define on your system a unique user which the
# ftp server can use as a totally isolated and unprivileged user.
#nopriv_user=ftpsecure
#
# Enable this and the server will recognise asynchronous ABOR requests. Not
# recommended for security (the code is non-trivial). Not enabling it,
# however, may confuse older FTP clients.
#async_abor_enable=YES
#
# By default the server will pretend to allow ASCII mode but in fact ignore
# the request. Turn on the below options to have the server actually do ASCII
# mangling on files when in ASCII mode.
# Beware that on some FTP servers, ASCII support allows a denial of service
# attack (DoS) via the command "SIZE /big/file" in ASCII mode. vsftpd
# predicted this attack and has always been safe, reporting the size of the
# raw file.
# ASCII mangling is a horrible feature of the protocol.
#ascii_upload_enable=YES
#ascii_download_enable=YES
#
# You may fully customise the login banner string:
#ftpd_banner=Welcome to blah FTP service.
#
# You may specify a file of disallowed anonymous e-mail addresses. Apparently
# useful for combatting certain DoS attacks.
#deny_email_enable=YES
# (default follows)
#banned_email_file=/etc/vsftpd.banned_emails
#
# You may restrict local users to their home directories. See the FAQ for
# the possible risks in this before using chroot_local_user or
# chroot_list_enable below.
#chroot_local_user=YES
#
# You may specify an explicit list of local users to chroot() to their home
# directory. If chroot_local_user is YES, then this list becomes a list of
# users to NOT chroot().
# (Warning! chroot'ing can be very dangerous. If using chroot, make sure that
# the user does not have write access to the top level directory within the
# chroot)
#chroot_local_user=YES
#chroot_list_enable=YES
# (default follows)
#chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list
#
# You may activate the "-R" option to the builtin ls. This is disabled by
# default to avoid remote users being able to cause excessive I/O on large
# sites. However, some broken FTP clients such as "ncftp" and "mirror" assume
# the presence of the "-R" option, so there is a strong case for enabling it.
#ls_recurse_enable=YES
#
# Customization
#
# Some of vsftpd's settings don't fit the filesystem layout by
# default.
#
# This option should be the name of a directory which is empty. Also, the
# directory should not be writable by the ftp user. This directory is used
# as a secure chroot() jail at times vsftpd does not require filesystem
# access.
secure_chroot_dir=/var/run/vsftpd/empty
#
# This string is the name of the PAM service vsftpd will use.
pam_service_name=vsftpd
#
# This option specifies the location of the RSA certificate to use for SSL
# encrypted connections.
rsa_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
# This option specifies the location of the RSA key to use for SSL
# encrypted connections.
rsa_private_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key

Hi, I'm having trouble configuring my vsftpd version 2.2.2 on Centos 6.6. I successfully log in, but I cannot make any changes (creating files, directories, whatever):
ftp> mkdir t
550 Permission denied.
ftp>

This is how my vsftp.conf looks:
Code:

anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
local_umask=022
dirmessage_enable=YES
listen=YES
pam_service_name=virtual-ftp
userlist_enable=YES
userlist_file=/etc/vsftpd.user_list
userlist_deny=NO
tcp_wrappers=YES
write_enable=YES
guest_enable=YES
guest_username=ftp
local_root=/mnt/storage/ftp

All users are mapped to the ftp user. /mnt/storage/ftp is owned by ftp and there are no permission problems (the mount point is /mnt/storage). I use pam for authentication, which seems to be working fine from what I can tell from the logs and the fact that I can log in, of course.

/mnt/storage is a linux partition and it's mounted like this:
/dev/sdb5 /mnt/storage ext4 defaults 0 0

Which is really unimportant, because I tried to use the root partition also, and I get the same problem.

On some site someone suggested allow_writeable_chroot=YES, but this directive is not identified by vsftpd.

I kind of ran out of ideas. Any suggestions?

Hello, I'm sort of a novice Linux user and was running into an issue with user migration. I'm trying to migrate users and groups from a RHEL 5.11 install to a CentOS 6.6 install, both systems are 64 bit. Initially I tried to do an rsync of the passwd, shadow, group and gshadow files with no luck. When trying to login with an existing account on the new server I get access denied. I tried to change the password on the new server, but even then it doesn't seem to change the password and I still get access denied. I then tried to tar up the four above files and then extracted them on the new server, but the same issue existed. I also created a new account on the old server, copied all the necessary files over to the new server and still have the same issues. Any ideas what I may be doing wrong or what I can try next? This is getting frustrating!

Thanks!

Dear All

I need your help.
I want to get a file from windows server using ftp.
Below is the script I have created but the connection is not established:

#!/bin/sh

lcd "directory in linux server"
USER="username of windows server"
PASS="password"

ftp -n "ip of windows server" <<EOF
user $USER $PASS

cd "C:\Users... directory in windows server where file is located"
bin
get test1234.txt

bye

EOF

I hope somebody can help me!
BR,

Hello,

I try to use a ftp daemon and a Telnet daemon with inetd and the BusyBox v1.19.0 on a linux 2.6.24.

When running inetd and then checking what is listening with "netstat -an |grep LISTEN" i have :
Code:

netstat: /proc/net/tcp6: No such file or directory
netstat: /proc/net/udp6: No such file or directory
netstat: /proc/net/raw6: No such file or directory
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:21              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:23              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN

ftp port 21 and Telnet port 23 seems to be listening.

My inetd.conf file is :

Code:

#<service_name>    <sock_type>    <proto>    <flags> <user>     <server_path>     <args> 

21 stream tcp nowait root ftpd ftpd /etc
telnet            stream        tcp        nowait    root    /usr/sbin/telnetd

I have no rule in my hosts.deny so nothing should be stopped and i have no iptables firewall in place too.

When typing "ftp://ipofthetarget" in a web browser i have a error :

Code:

504 Gateway Timeout
Gateway timeout expired while waiting for server response.

And when trying to Telnet from another computer or "Telnet localhost" from the board i have :
Code:

# telnet 10.2.29.201
Trying 10.2.29.201...
connected to 10.2.29.201.
Escape character is '^]'

Connection closed by foreign host.

This would mean that the connection for Telnet exist but why is it closing ?

Thank you for your future answers !

UPDATE 1 :
If i try to run telnetd like this :
/usb/sbin/telnet -l /bin/sh
i can connect anonymously from another computer, not perfect because i would like a user/password but still of use.
The problem with the ftp daemon still exist.

UPDATE 2 :
Trying from Windows cmd or linux terminal : ftp ipofthetarget seems to work
Not perfect because i would like a user/password too but still of use.

I am still open for suggestion for the user/password thing. I am not deleting the thread in case someone interested about this exist.

I have created a new user with "useradd" than changed the password with "passwd" (logged in as an administrator). After that I tried to login as the new user but couldn't. Error message was: "call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). Check your installation".

I currently use Debian 8.

I checked the home directory and couldn't find a new created folder for the new user (wasn't supposed to be done automatically by useradd?) and I checked the etc/password and there was the new user name inside it though.

What should I do? I really need to have more than one user on this computer...

Hi All,

Please can someone assist me on this, I enabled Selinux on Ubuntu 14.04 server and it's disabling ssh remote login for all users including root.

From the ssh terminal I get the following error:

ssh root@192.168.x.x
Last login: Wed Mar 25 12:39:02 2015 from 192.168.x.x
/bin/bash: Permission denied
Connection to 192.168.211.135 closed.


tail /var/log/auth.log

ubuntu sshd[1640]: Accepted password for root from 192.168.x.x port 51082 ssh2

ubuntu sshd[1642]: Accepted password for root from 192.168.x.x port 51089 ssh2

ubunt sshd[1640]: Received disconnect from 192.168.x.x: disconnected by user

audit2allow --all

sshd_t

This avc is a constraint violation. you would need to modify the attribute of either the source or target types to allow this access.

possible cause is the source user (system_u) and target user (unconfined_u) are different.

possible cause is the source role (system_r) and target role (unconfined_r) are different.

possible cause is the source level (s0) and target level (s0-s0:c0.c255) are different.

allow sshd_t unconfined_trocess transition.

Please how can I make this changes to take effect.

Thanks in advance.

I have been getting permission denied issues when trying to log into as root. I have set my password and when I type su - root and enter in my password I keep getting either password incorrect when I know I am typing it in correctly or acess permission denied from su. Can anyone explain what I am doing wrong. I am trying to get into /etc/passwd for homework assignment and I get permission denied when logged in as my user. Any help will be great. I have in the past been able to logg in to root but now I cant seem to get into it. This is a new install of ubuntu 14

Hi, I'm really a newbie when it comes to Linux, so please bear with me.

We have a working FTP using vsftpd with a pam.d database (by the looks of it).

I've found the list of users/password in the /etc/vsftpd/ folder called passwd, but they are all encrypted.

How can I change the password for a single user? I'm sorry I've been looking for over 3 hourw, still don't understand how to do this.

Thank you very much for whomever can help.

In my RHEL 6 sever space issue so i am mounted new user
home directory to my nas storage with cifs rw permission

but when user using ftp getting error 550 create directory operation failed

vsftpd user home directory mounted with cifs rw permission but getting error 550 create directory operation failed