{"id":1004,"date":"2013-11-14T07:56:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T07:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2014-06-28T05:13:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T05:13:39","slug":"vsftpd-500-oops-chroot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=1004","title":{"rendered":"vsftpd 500 oops chroot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After rebooting an FTP server running vsftpd with chroot enabled, users were unable to use FTP and upon connecting would see the subject error;  500 oops chroot<\/p>\n<p>After investigating <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/16102996\/vsftpd-refusing-to-run-with-writable-root-inside-chroot\">some<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benscobie.com\/fixing-500-oops-vsftpd-refusing-to-run-with-writable-root-inside-chroot\/\">possible<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/239239\/ubuntu-12-04-500-oops-vsftpd-refusing-to-run-with-writable-root-inside-chroot\">solutions<\/a>, I found that the problem in this case was selinux.  Disabling that got it working as expected, users can FTP and they&#8217;re chrooted to home directory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After rebooting an FTP server running vsftpd with chroot enabled, users were unable to use FTP and upon connecting would see the subject error; 500 oops chroot After investigating some possible solutions, I found that the problem in this case &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=1004\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1167,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}