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November 29th, 2012, 08:52 AM

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Hi there,

I have a user who needs access to copy files via FileZilla onto my FTP server. The user is able to login and view the folder, however the user is not able to copy the files into the directory. Error message being "550 Permission denied."

Please can someone assist?

November 29th, 2012, 12:08 PM

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Do they have the right permissions on the directory? Apparently not.

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November 30th, 2012, 12:02 AM

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Do they have the right permissions on the directory? Apparently not.

How do I give them write permissions to that directory? I've tried chmod 775 /directory and various other combiniations. Even tried chmod 777.

November 30th, 2012, 02:17 AM

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Are there perhaps other restrictions enforced by the software? Speaking of, what software?

November 30th, 2012, 02:23 AM

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Are there perhaps other restrictions enforced by the software? Speaking of, what software?

No other restrictions that I can see / think of. I'm using FileZilla, Putty and Unix. And working from a Windows 7 machine of coarse.

Used touch text.txt and the file was successfully created, and I was even able to copy this file created in this folder to my desktop.

November 30th, 2012, 03:17 AM

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And what program is running the FTP service?

As for other restrictions, creating the file in SSH and downloading it over FTP is very different from creating the file in FTP. I would expect that the former always works.

November 30th, 2012, 03:24 AM

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Finally managed to resolve the issue. There was a problem with the config file.

Had to Write_enable set it to yes

Code:

grep write /etc/vsftpd.conf
# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
write_enable=YES

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