VSFTD PORT 21 PROBLEM

Sftp run on ssh that's why you are able to login.

Sftp and ftp both are the different things.

If you want to check whether vsftpd is running or not on your box then please execute below given command.

# service vsftpd status

or

# /etc/init.d/vsftpd status

[root@localhost sysconfig]# service vsftpd status
Se está ejecutando vsftpd (pid 2727)...

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You should also check if root user is allowed to login via ftp.

For other connection issues (firewall etc.) please post your vsftp config file and the output of command iptables -L -nvx.

Cuando conecto por ftp me da la bienvenida 220 (vsFTPd 2.0.5), por lo tanto entiendo que el servicio vsftpd estar arrancado.

The root user has permissions to connect by ftp, anyway me about all users. IPtables is offline.

What is your ftp client? Please post the vsftp configuration file.

# Example config file /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
#
# The default compiled in settings are fairly paranoid. This sample file
# loosens things up a bit, to make the ftp daemon more usable.
# Please see vsftpd.conf.5 for all compiled in defaults.
#
# READ THIS: This example file is NOT an exhaustive list of vsftpd options.
# Please read the vsftpd.conf.5 manual page to get a full idea of vsftpd's
# capabilities.
#
# Allow anonymous FTP? (Beware - allowed by default if you comment this out).
anonymous_enable=NO
#
# Uncomment this to allow local users to log in.
local_enable=YES
#
# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
write_enable=YES
#
# Default umask for local users is 077. You may wish to change this to 022,
# if your users expect that (022 is used by most other ftpd's)
local_umask=003
#
# Uncomment this to allow the anonymous FTP user to upload files. This only
# has an effect if the above global write enable is activated. Also, you will
# obviously need to create a directory writable by the FTP user.
#anon_upload_enable=YES
#
# Uncomment this if you want the anonymous FTP user to be able to create
# new directories.
#anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
#
# Activate directory messages - messages given to remote users when they
# go into a certain directory.
dirmessage_enable=YES
#
# The target log file can be vsftpd_log_file or xferlog_file.
# This depends on setting xferlog_std_format parameter
xferlog_enable=YES
#
# Make sure PORT transfer connections originate from port 20 (ftp-data).
connect_from_port_20=YES
#
# If you want, you can arrange for uploaded anonymous files to be owned by
# a different user. Note! Using "root" for uploaded files is not
# recommended!
#chown_uploads=YES
#chown_username=whoever
#
# The name of log file when xferlog_enable=YES and xferlog_std_format=YES
# WARNING - changing this filename affects /etc/logrotate.d/vsftpd.log
xferlog_file=/var/log/xferlog.log
#
# Switches between logging into vsftpd_log_file and xferlog_file files.
# NO writes to vsftpd_log_file, YES to xferlog_file
xferlog_std_format=YES
#
# You may change the default value for timing out an idle session.
#idle_session_timeout=600
#
# You may change the default value for timing out a data connection.
#data_connection_timeout=120
#
# It is recommended that you define on your system a unique user which the
# ftp server can use as a totally isolated and unprivileged user.
#nopriv_user=ftpsecure
#
# Enable this and the server will recognise asynchronous ABOR requests. Not
# recommended for security (the code is non-trivial). Not enabling it,
# however, may confuse older FTP clients.
#async_abor_enable=YES
#
# By default the server will pretend to allow ASCII mode but in fact ignore
# the request. Turn on the below options to have the server actually do ASCII
# mangling on files when in ASCII mode.
# Beware that on some FTP servers, ASCII support allows a denial of service
# attack (DoS) via the command "SIZE /big/file" in ASCII mode. vsftpd
# predicted this attack and has always been safe, reporting the size of the
# raw file.
# ASCII mangling is a horrible feature of the protocol.
#ascii_upload_enable=YES
#ascii_download_enable=YES
#
# You may fully customise the login banner string:
#ftpd_banner=Benvingut a WP Elisava.
#
# You may specify a file of disallowed anonymous e-mail addresses. Apparently
# useful for combatting certain DoS attacks.
#deny_email_enable=YES
# (default follows)
#banned_email_file=/etc/vsftpd/banned_emails
#
# You may specify an explicit list of local users to chroot() to their home
# directory. If chroot_local_user is YES, then this list becomes a list of
# users to NOT chroot().
chroot_local_user=YES
chroot_list_enable=YES
# (default follows)
chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list
#
# You may activate the "-R" option to the builtin ls. This is disabled by
# default to avoid remote users being able to cause excessive I/O on large
# sites. However, some broken FTP clients such as "ncftp" and "mirror" assume
# the presence of the "-R" option, so there is a strong case for enabling it.
#ls_recurse_enable=YES
#
# When "listen" directive is enabled, vsftpd runs in standalone mode and 
# listens on IPv4 sockets. This directive cannot be used in conjunction 
# with the listen_ipv6 directive.
listen=YES
#
# This directive enables listening on IPv6 sockets. To listen on IPv4 and IPv6
# sockets, you must run two copies of vsftpd whith two configuration files.
# Make sure, that one of the listen options is commented !!
#listen_ipv6=YES

#pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=YES
userlist_deny=NO
tcp_wrappers=YES

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Could you please run below given command on your box where you are running vsftpd.

# netstat -natp | grep -i ftp

and on the client machine could you please run below given command and paste output of both the command.

# telnet <vsftp box's IP> 21

LINUX SERVER:

[root@localhost /]# netstat -natp | grep -i ftp
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:21                  0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      2727/vsftpd
tcp        0      0 172.16.6.2:21               172.16.64.206:4061          ESTABLISHED 8665/vsftpd

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CLIENT:

220 (vsFTPd 2.0.5)

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Could you additionally post the content of files:
/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list
/etc/vsftpd.user_list

And answer what ftp client are you using. Try using a simple command line ftp client.

vsftpd.chroot_list

bin
daemon
adm
lp
sync
shutdown
halt
mail
news
uucp
operator
games
gopher
ftp
nobody
nscd
vcsa
pcap
dbus
rpc
mailnull
smmsp
sshd
rpcuser
nfsnobody
haldaemon
avahi-autoipd
distcache
apache
avahi
webalizer
named
squid
dovecot
mysql

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vsftpd.user_list

gfernandez
root

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Client FTP: FIlezilla and simple command line

Iniciando vsftpd para vsftpd: 500 OOPS: bad bool value in config file for: anonymous_enable
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I restart serice... :(

Look up these lines in the config:
# Allow anonymous FTP? (Beware - allowed by default if you comment this out).
anonymous_enable=NO

You probably accidentally added or deleted a letter at "NO"

What did you chenge now?

What do the server logs tell you about your connection attempts?

Do I understand correctly that your problem is now fixed? If so you should close the question.

TNX

TNX ALL!!!!