500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot()The easiest way for me to move benchmarking results from my Minix3 vm in qemu to my ubuntu localhost is via ftp. Today, I was unable to log in as myself. This appears to be a new security feature. I found a temporary way around this seeing as though I will be uninstalling sftpd once I am done with Minix, or at least disabling it..
I chmod a-w’d my /home/user, effectively stripping user’s of any ability to modify this directory’s contents. Then
sudo mkdir /home/user/ftp sudo chown -Rv user /home/user/ftp
I also forgot to toggle passive mode once logged in, which tripped me up for a bit!
Update
removing permissions from my home directory took away my ability to log in after shutting down my computer. I ended up having to create a new admin account and chmodding back my home so that I could log in. I suppose I’ll have to find a better way to ftp stuff over…or never shutdown my computer again.
