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500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot()

This is one of the most annoying and frustrating problems I have run into lately. This supposed security fix makes vsftp simply unusable after upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04 from 10.04. No amount of cajoling or messing with options will get … Continue reading

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