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I new to this so followed this walkthrough to set up a vsftp server on an Ubuntu 16.04 box. With this configuration I managed to log into my ftp server and upload/download files but the thing is that I have to enter the server and then enter the subfolder which has read/write access for the user logging in. I tried to change the ftp root folder by changing

local_root=/home/$USER/ftp

to

local_root=/home/$USER/ftp/files

But this gives me GnuTLS error -15: An unexpected TLS packet was received. when I reload the server setting and try to connect.

Is there something I'm missing? What would be a recommended approach to configure vsftp so that user logs directly into its read/write folder. TLS connection is required.

natral
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  • tls had ususally nothing to do with the root dir – djdomi Oct 12 '19 at 07:03
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    Could you show the rest of your configuration? Maybe there is some TLS - Config depending on $local_root, but this is hard to say without knowing your whole config... – Sebastian Oct 17 '19 at 08:13

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My solution is following:

I had to add following to vsftpd.conf

allow_writeable_chroot=YES
chroot_local_user=YES 
local_root=/home/$USER/ftp/files
user_sub_token=$USER
ssl_enable=NO --optional-- to get rid of the error
Zareh Kasparian
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