VSFTPD keeps giving me 550 Permission Denied

[cmetcjr]

I just installed VSFTPD and made a user named ftpadmin.
I made the home folder for ftpadmin /var/www
I also gave ftpadmin ownership of /var/www

No matter what I do, I can't delete, add, or do anything in any directory even though when I log in, it goes there.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
cmetcjr

[Poleh]

am I correct in assuming you created vsftpadmin user and are logging into the FTP server using that account? As opposed to that being the user the server daemon is running as.

Whichever account you use to login to the server is going to need permissions to the folders you are giong to browse.

You mention you've set the ownership on the folder, can you confirm the permissions with a screenie/dump?

I used
sudo chown -R ftpadmin /var/www
sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www

watch out for the last line though, as this gives all users full access to the folder. But it's a good starting point, because it should allow access, and then you can start locking it down.

[k.sangeeth]

Well I also had a similar problem .. i figured out the solution.

open your vsftpd.conf file .. for me it was in /etc/vsftpd.conf.

There you will find the following line :
# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
#write_enable=YES

Uncomment this .. it will look like this.
# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
write_enable=YES

Restart your ftp daemon and I hope things will work as expected.

Cheers !!!!
www.sangeek.com

[pablobablo]

Well I also had a similar problem .. i figured out the solution.

open your vsftpd.conf file .. for me it was in /etc/vsftpd.conf.

There you will find the following line :
# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
#write_enable=YES

Uncomment this .. it will look like this.
# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
write_enable=YES

Restart your ftp daemon and I hope things will work as expected.

Cheers !!!!
www.sangeek.com

Thanks for your answer. It's helped.
After uncommend this line I used following command to restart FTP server:

service vsftpd restart

[Sailor-Moon]

I have the same issue, BUT when I try to access cd / etc/vsftpd.comf I get
-bash cd / etc/vsftpd.comf :Not a directory

Help please

[Vegan]

open a terminal

sudo nano /etc/vsftpd.conf