Comments on: Making vsftpd with chrooted users work again on Ubuntu 12.04

By: OwN-3m-All

OwN-3m-All — Fri, 17 May 2013 04:46:37 +0000

Here’s the 32-bit patched version for Ubuntu 12.10:

http://dinofly.com/files/linux/vsftpd_2.3.5-3ubuntu1_i386.deb

And a mirror of the 64-bit version for Ubuntu 12.10:

http://dinofly.com/files/linux/vsftpd_2.3.5-3.jme_amd64.deb

By: Rafael

Rafael — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:44:32 +0000

Hi all,

I faced the same problem using Ubuntu 12.10, and during my debugging process I found this .deb already patched for Ubuntu 12.10.

http://blog.desertbushtech.com/2013/02/i-use-ubuntu.html

I hope this also helps other 12.10 users :).

By: ติดตั้ง vsftpd ด้วย ubuntu 12.04 writable chroot

ติดตั้ง vsftpd ด้วย ubuntu 12.04 writable chroot — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:20:36 +0000

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By: 9000birds

9000birds — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:34:10 +0000

Thank you so much, finally my problem solved.

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vsftpd unter ubuntu 12.04 einrichten | Open learning — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:04:53 +0000

[...] Das bedeutet, wir müssen die neue Version von vsftpd auf unser System installieren. Dazu wurde hier eine sogenannter backport entwickelt. Diesen installieren wir, damit das Endergebnis dann auch machen kann was es [...]

By: AndyG

AndyG — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:29:48 +0000

Thank you so much. I’d not tried setting up an ftp server before and was going nuts wondering why I couln’t get chroot to work correctly on Precise. Especially when I found so many post describing how it’s done… and then it didn’t work for me. I can now relax and enjoy my coffee :)

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 02:33:34 +0000

Hi Anton,

It is probably easiest to grab the source package for my PPA, and extract the patch that backports the writable root functionality (it is in the file vsftpd-2.3.5/debian/patches/11-allow-writeable-root.patch). Then add that patch to the Ubuntu 12.10 source package and compile it. It’s the same version of vsftpd so there is a good chance that the patch will apply cleanly.

I think you’d get bonus Internet Points if you also created your own PPA using the instructions on the Ubuntu wiki. It’s a bit of work to get going, but you learn quite a bit during the process and you can share it with others easily.

By: Anton

Anton — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:48:08 +0000

Hey Mark,

I was wondering , since you said this PPA is only for 12.04, have you got maybe any idea how to fix this on 12.10? We HAVE to use 12.10 for school, so downgrading is not an option for me… any ideas?

Kind regards
Anton Vandeghinste

By: Alain

Alain — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:55:31 +0000

Thanks! Good job!

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:11:49 +0000

Thanks! After hours of going around in circles this fixed my problem!

When using SSL (FTPS) it also fixes the “GnuTLS error -15: An unexpected TLS packet was received.” error seen in Filezilla on Ubuntu.