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vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot()

Posted July 27, 2013 27.9k views
I have installed vsftpd on my Ubuntu 12.04 x32 I have set up vsftpd.conf and uncommented local_enable=YES and write_enable=YES and chroot_local_user=YES (both of them). I had already installed apache server in /home/var/www/ so I did a chown root:root /var/www/ When I try to login with the root username and password to the ftp server. I get the error vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot()
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Stefan H. July 27, 2013
Try a another user then root
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george.semaan July 27, 2013
what other user? The installation did not ask me to assign or create a new user for vsftpd.
I don't know what else to try.
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george.semaan July 27, 2013
I just created another username and gave it root access. I'm getting the same error.
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kamaln7 July 27, 2013
You have to chmod 755 /var/www as well, it's a vsftpd restriction.
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george.semaan July 27, 2013
Now I'm getting [7/27/2013 7:57:27 AM] 530 Login incorrect.
I have no idea what's going on.
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george.semaan July 27, 2013
I did chmod 755 /var/www
no good
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kamaln7 July 27, 2013
Do you see any errors in vsftpd's logs?
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george.semaan July 27, 2013
How can I check them?
I'm not very experienced with this, sorry.
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kamaln7 July 27, 2013
Run "tail /var/log/vsftpd.log"
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george.semaan July 27, 2013
I got this

root@maghnatis:~# tail /var/log/vsftpd.log
Sat Jul 27 18:57:50 2013 [pid 2] CONNECT: Client "41.159.129.15"
Sat Jul 27 18:57:52 2013 [pid 1] [root] FAIL LOGIN: Client "41.159.129.15"
Sat Jul 27 18:59:34 2013 [pid 2] CONNECT: Client "41.159.129.15"
Sat Jul 27 18:59:37 2013 [pid 1] [root] FAIL LOGIN: Client "41.159.129.15"
Sat Jul 27 19:01:10 2013 [pid 2] CONNECT: Client "41.159.129.15"
Sat Jul 27 19:01:12 2013 [pid 1] [root] FAIL LOGIN: Client "41.159.129.15"
Sat Jul 27 19:01:29 2013 [pid 2] CONNECT: Client "41.159.129.15"
Sat Jul 27 19:01:32 2013 [pid 1] [root] FAIL LOGIN: Client "41.159.129.15"
Sat Jul 27 19:01:46 2013 [pid 2] CONNECT: Client "41.159.129.15"
Sat Jul 27 19:01:46 2013 [pid 1] [snitz] OK LOGIN: Client "41.159.129.15"
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