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defeating vsftp error “500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/some/directory”

There’s lots of recommendations floating around the net for this, but try the following first:

Make sure that the user and group permissions for the account and the home directory match. For example, if you are logging in as:

account:x:521:500::/some/directory:/sbin/nologin

then make sure that the home directory defined for “account” is at least readable and executable by user 521 and group 500.

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One Response to “defeating vsftp error “500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/some/directory””

  1. Jaime M. Says:
    October 19th, 2009 at 4:25 pm

    Hi! that error is generate for Selinux plz do the following actions:

    [root@sun02 vsftpd]# getenforce
    Enforcing
    [root@sun02 vsftpd]# getsebool -a | grep ftp
    allow_ftpd_anon_write –> off
    allow_ftpd_full_access –> off
    allow_ftpd_use_cifs –> off
    allow_ftpd_use_nfs –> off
    allow_tftp_anon_write –> off
    ftp_home_dir –> on (change that to on in ur case this option is off)
    ftpd_disable_trans –> off
    ftpd_is_daemon –> on
    httpd_enable_ftp_server –> off
    tftpd_disable_trans –> off
    [root@sun02 vsftpd]# setseboll -P ftp_home_dir on

    This is all that u want to need.

    Good Luck!

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