[olug] vsftpd anonymous home is not /var/ftp?

Christopher Cashell topher at zyp.org
Tue Dec 27 09:06:20 UTC 2005


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At Mon, 26 Dec 05, Unidentified Flying Banana Neal Rauhauser, said:
> I'm running SuSe 9.2, I need to allow anonymous ftp on a purely private 
> machine, and I've added the vsftpd package via yast. There isn't 
> anything in /etc/vsftpd.conf that says where it might look for 
> anonymous' home directory, the stuff I've googled says it'll use 
> /var/ftp, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I've got the most open 
> permissions imaginable and that obviously isn't the problem.

On my box, running Debian, vsftpd defaults to using the home directory
of the 'ftp' user for anonymous ftp.  Perhaps double-check what user
it's being run as, and what that user's home directory is?

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