vsftpd

vsftpd

[Robert.Couture]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to linux.newbies as well.

Hello All!

I am having a problem setting up vsftpd with anonymous access.  I keep getting
the following error:

500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable anonymous root

I am stumped as to what this means.  I have tried all sorts of games with
setting permissions, but nothing seems to work.

The man pages do not address this issue and searches on the internet do not
reveal anything to resolve the problem.  As a newbie user, I sure could use a
detailed cure for this.  :)

I am running RH 9.0 and the vsftpd root is the standard /var/ftp

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Robert

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Re: vsftpd

[Carl]

At 22:24 20/05/2003 +0000, Robert.Couture@p0.f2000.n229.z1.fidonet.org wrote:

>Hello All!
>
>I am having a problem setting up vsftpd with anonymous access.  I keep getting
>the following error:
>
>500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable anonymous root
>
>I am stumped as to what this means.  I have tried all sorts of games with
>setting permissions, but nothing seems to work.
>
>The man pages do not address this issue and searches on the internet do not
>reveal anything to resolve the problem.  As a newbie user, I sure could use a
>detailed cure for this.  :)
>
>I am running RH 9.0 and the vsftpd root is the standard /var/ftp

This sounds exactly what it says on the tin. The root dir for anonymous users is writeable.
I am not familiar with vsftpd but i know it stands for "Very Secure FTP Daemon" so it makes
sense that it wouldn't allow anonymous write access.

I found this on the vsftpd website in the FAQ:


Q) Help! I'm getting the error message "refusing to run with writable anonymous
root".
A) vsftpd is protecting against dangerous configurations. The cause of this
message is usually dodgy ownership of the ftp home directory. The home
directory should NOT be owned by the ftp user itself. Neither should it
be writable by the ftp user. A way to fix this is:
chown root ~ftp; chmod -w ~ftp

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Carl 

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Re: vsftpd

[Ray Olszewski]

There's a linux.newbie newsgroup? You learn something new every day. I'm 
cc'ing the mailing list rather than the newsgroup, since that is how the 
question reached me.

Anyway ... you didn't search hard enough on the Internet. The vsftpd home 
site (the first thing listed in a Google search on "vsftpd") has a FAQ (at 
URL ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans/untar/vsftpd-1.1.3/FAQ) and this 
is in it:

>Q) Help! I'm getting the error message "refusing to run with writable 
>anonymous
>root".
>A) vsftpd is protecting against dangerous configurations. The cause of this
>message is usually dodgy ownership of the ftp home directory. The home
>directory should NOT be owned by the ftp user itself. Neither should it
>be writable by the ftp user. A way to fix this is:
>chown root ~ftp; chmod -w ~ftp

I don't use vsftpd myself (in fact, I hadn't heard of it prior to this 
message) ... so if that answer doesn't help you, I can't provide any 
further assistance if you have trouble making this work, unless you provide 
very clear details about what you tried and what went wrong.

At 10:24 PM 5/20/2003 +0000, Robert.Couture@p0.f2000.n229.z1.fidonet.org wrote:
>The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
>that has been posted to linux.newbies as well.
>
>Hello All!
>
>I am having a problem setting up vsftpd with anonymous access.  I keep getting
>the following error:
>
>500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable anonymous root
>
>I am stumped as to what this means.  I have tried all sorts of games with
>setting permissions, but nothing seems to work.
>
>The man pages do not address this issue and searches on the internet do not
>reveal anything to resolve the problem.  As a newbie user, I sure could use a
>detailed cure for this.  :)
>
>I am running RH 9.0 and the vsftpd root is the standard /var/ftp
>
>Thanks in advance!



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Re: vsftpd

[Sean Rima]

On 21.05.2003 08:20:44, Ray Olszewski wrote:

 RO> From: Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>
 RO>
 RO> There's a linux.newbie newsgroup? You learn something new every day. I'm
 RO> cc'ing the mailing list rather than the newsgroup, since that is how the
 RO> question reached me.
 RO>

The linux.newbie ng is a private mailing lists here at tcob1.net. I run a BBS
and the mailing list get sent to Fidonet and a couple of other similar
networks. I must strip that header and maybe a couple of others

Sean

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linux-newbie newsgroup (was: Re: vsftpd)

[Ray Olszewski]

At 08:06 AM 5/22/2003 +0000, Sean Rima wrote:
>On 21.05.2003 08:20:44, Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
>  RO> From: Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>
>  RO>
>  RO> There's a linux.newbie newsgroup? You learn something new every day. I'm
>  RO> cc'ing the mailing list rather than the newsgroup, since that is how the
>  RO> question reached me.
>  RO>
>
>The linux.newbie ng is a private mailing lists here at tcob1.net. I run a BBS
>and the mailing list get sent to Fidonet and a couple of other similar
>networks. I must strip that header and maybe a couple of others

Because the message I was responding to came via this unfamiliar-to-me 
newsgroup, rather than directly to the list, I replied to both the group 
and the poster's address. The reply to the poster bounced. Because I don't 
know how this newsgroup works, I don't know if he saw it. In stripping that 
header, you might want also to look at how the From: header is being 
handled ... I have no way of knowing why the bounce happened (that is, 
whether the bad From: address was caused by the newsgroup processing, or if 
the poster just used a bogus address).



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Re: linux-newbie newsgroup

[Sean Rima]

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On 22 May 2003, Ray Olszewski spake:

>At 08:06 AM 5/22/2003 +0000, Sean Rima wrote:
>>On 21.05.2003 08:20:44, Ray Olszewski wrote:
>>
>>RO> From: Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>
>>RO>
>>RO> There's a linux.newbie newsgroup? You learn something new every
>>RO> day. I'm cc'ing the mailing list rather than the newsgroup, since
>>RO> that is how the question reached me.
>>RO>
>>
>>The linux.newbie ng is a private mailing lists here at tcob1.net. I
>>run a BBS and the mailing list get sent to Fidonet and a couple of
>>other similar networks. I must strip that header and maybe a couple of
>>others
>
>Because the message I was responding to came via this unfamiliar-to-me
>newsgroup, rather than directly to the list, I replied to both the
>group and the poster's address. The reply to the poster
>bounced. Because I don't know how this newsgroup works, I don't know
>if he saw it. In stripping that header, you might want also to look at
>how the From: header is being handled ... I have no way of knowing why
>the bounce happened (that is, whether the bad From: address was caused
>by the newsgroup processing, or if the poster just used a bogus
>address).
>

He does, any posting to the list which arrives here goes to the
newsgroups, gated via hamster currently. It is then converted to FTN
technology (http://www.fidonet.ca) and sent to hundreds of BBS systems
around the world.

Sean
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Re: vsftpd

[Robert.Couture]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to linux.newbies as well.

Hello Carl!

May 21 13:38 03, Carl wrote to Robert.Couture@p0.f2000.n229.z1.fid:

 C> I found this on the vsftpd website in the FAQ:


 C> Q) Help! I'm getting the error message "refusing to run with writable
 C> anonymous root".
 C> A) vsftpd is protecting against dangerous configurations. The cause of
 C> this message is usually dodgy ownership of the ftp home directory. The
 C> home directory should NOT be owned by the ftp user itself. Neither
 C> should it be writable by the ftp user. A way to fix this is: chown
 C> root ~ftp; chmod -w ~ftp

Thanks a million!

Regards,
Robert

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