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ftp - getting access denied

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 4:05 am
by shua
After doing system restart I keep getting an access denied error when I try to log in with any ftp user to my vps
I did this --> service vsftpd start
and got
Starting vsftpd for vsftpd: 500 OOPS: cannot read config file: /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf [FAILED]
any suggestions?

Re: ftp - getting access denied

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 1:37 pm
by imperio
Hi,
what is your operating system on the server ?

Re: ftp - getting access denied

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 8:35 am
by djeglin
I'm experiencing a similar issue of late. I'm not getting an access denied error, though, I'm getting a "Cannot read response" error. I also notice that SSH is very slow all of a sudden. I haven't made any changes, so I don't know what has changed. Sometimes the connection gets through, but most of the time using a desktop client such as Transmit I get chucked out (I assume this is some kind of timeout). If I manually connect through the command line, it gets there eventually but takes an age.

Ping responses are normal though, taking around 22ms to complete.

Something has clearly caused a major slowdown somewhere.

OS: CentOS 6.5

Re: ftp - getting access denied

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 4:07 pm
by imperio
I recommend that you use proftpd

instruction for replacement vsftpd --> proftpd

1. Disable vsftpd

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service vsftpd stop
chkconfig vsftpd off
2. Install software package

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yum install proftpd
3. Download configuration

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wget http://c.vestacp.com/0.9.8/rhel/proftpd.conf -O /etc/proftpd.conf
4. Change vesta settings

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sed -i "s/vsftpd/proftpd/" /usr/local/vesta/conf/vesta.conf
5. Enable proftpd

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chkconfig proftpd on
service proftpd start

Re: ftp - getting access denied

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 11:54 pm
by djeglin
That seems much better for me at least. I don't know about the OP.

Thanks very much

D

Re: ftp - getting access denied

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 11:27 am
by Acans
Can I do this for Debain 7.5? I'm having troubles with vsftpd as well.

Nevermind, Google is amazing.

For anybody else with Debian:

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service vsftpd stop

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update-rc.d -f vsftpd remove

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apt-get install proftpd

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wget http://c.vestacp.com/0.9.8/debian/proftpd.conf -O /etc/proftpd.conf

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sed -i "s/vsftpd/proftpd/" /usr/local/vesta/conf/vesta.conf

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update-rc.d -f proftpd enable

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service proftpd start

Re: ftp - getting access denied

Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 5:20 pm
by imperio
Yes, you can doing this for Debian/Ubuntu