Vsftpd cannot chmod - error 550

[gman88]

I am totally new to FreeBSD coming from a Linux background. I've never had any issues with Vsftpd on any Linux distro (seen some rants around the net) and it was always incredibly easy to make and configure. I installed this via the port and added a user (I'm so new, maybe I did something wrong there...I dunno). Anyway, I can log in fine. I'm chrooted just fine. Even though it's a default and I have never had to use it I got an "Unknown Command" error until I added "chown_enable=YES". Now, however, while it no longer says it cannot understand the chmod command it simply says that it cannot perform the chmod command. It's just says "550 Chmod command failed".

I am still a complete newb so maybe I've done something whacky. From force of habit I even compiled most of my LAMP server from some old scripts and,with minor futzing, everything worked - but Vsftpd. My vsftpd.conf looks like this:

anonymous_enable=YES
chmod_enable=YES
local_enable=YES
banner_file=/etc/banners/ftp.msg
write_enable=YES
dirmessage_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
chroot_list_enable=YES
chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list
listen=YES
background=YES

Anyway.. Does anyone have a guess as to what would be causing this..? The account is just a dummy username called bob; the directory is chowned bob:bob. I'm lost

 

[hydra]

Isn't vsftpd running under the ftp account and thus it doesn't have write permissions to your FTP root directory ? Just a guess...

 

[gman88]

I have no idea.....

I don't know what it's "running under"; I simply installed it from ports and added vsftpd_enable=YES to /etc/rc.conf. The configuration file is what you see posted. I'm not very clear on what user it's running under. If I type [cmd=]ps -aux[/cmd] I see two references to vsftpd - they look something like this:

root 1609  /usr/local/libexec/vsftpd
bob  1621  /usr/local/libexec/vsftpd

Still confused - thanks for trying to help.... I used adduser to add the user "bob" and gave him a bash shell....

 

[gman88]

This is SO Weird....

I'm just fiddling around...at this point. I uploaded a couple of files from a Windows desktop - a file ending in xlsx (some Word format) and a php file. I can set the permissions on the php file, but not the xlsx file - and I still cannot chmod the directories that I created for an apache virtual host (htdocs, cgi-bin). But, I can create NEW folders and chmod those.


This is crazy.