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Look /var/log in the messages, daemon, and vsftpd logs. &nbsp;One of them should contain information about why the error is occurring.<br />
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Speculatively, the user in question is trying to switch out of their /home directory into some other directory, the target directory being one to which world has no read access.
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Look /var/log in the messages, daemon, and vsftpd logs.  One of them should contain information about why the error is occurring.

Speculatively, the user in question is trying to switch out of their /home directory into some other directory, the target directory being one to which world has no read access.

Fractional CTO

David Favor

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I have this error now 500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot()
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I have this error now 500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot()

Principal Software Engineer

Dr. Klahn

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&nbsp;Hi experts <br>I receive error in debian vsftpd error-500-oops-cannot-change-directory-home-ftpuser-in-vsftpd-1 when trying to connect through ftp client filezilla.
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 Hi experts
I receive error in debian vsftpd error-500-oops-cannot-change-directory-home-ftpuser-in-vsftpd-1 when trying to connect through ftp client filezilla.

receive error in debian vsftpd error-500-oops-cannot-change-directory-home-ftpuser-in-vsftpd-

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