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I have a user on my server (Debian) that I will be using for FTP. For a given directory on the file system, he is able to create directories/create files.

myuser@debian-server:/storage$ su ftp_accesser Password: ftp_accesser@debian-server:/storage$ echo "foobar" > foobar.txt ftp_accesser@debian-server:/storage$ mkdir -v foobar2 mkdir: created directory 'foobar2' ftp_accesser@debian-server:/storage$ ls -l total 448380 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 25 19:32 other_dir drwxrwxr-x 2 ftp_accesser ftp_accesser 4096 Apr 9 11:32 foobar2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp_accesser ftp_accesser 7 Apr 9 11:31 foobar.txt ftp_accesser@debian-server:/storage$

I am also running the vsftpd server on this server. I attempt to do the same thing as above (with the files removed, of course) using the ftp client.

Connected to localhost. 220 (vsFTPd 3.0.3) Name (localhost:myuser): ftp_accesser 331 Please specify the password. Password: 230 Login successful. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> cd /storage 250 Directory successfully changed. ftp> mkdir foobar3 550 Permission denied. ftp> put /home/myuser/foobar.txt foobar.txt local: /home/myuser/foobar.txt remote: foobar.txt 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV. 550 Permission denied. ftp>

Is there a way to allow ftp_accesser to put/mkdir files onto the server?

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  • Have you done anything special to your vsftpd.conf? e.g. guest_enable or user_config_dir? Commented Apr 9, 2019 at 19:03
  • Have you configured vsftp to allow writes? The default configuration of vsftp is usually write_enable=NO in /etc/vsftpd.conf. Commented Apr 9, 2019 at 19:07
  • "write_enable=YES" was commented out for whatever reason. Thanks for the fix! Commented Apr 9, 2019 at 23:13

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It turns out that write_enable=YES was commented out in my /etc/vsftpd.conf file. Once I uncommented that and restarted the server, I was successfully able to create a directory and put a file.

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