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7Jan12 Fixing 500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot ()

After upgrading vsftpd to 2.3.5 you may be getting the following message when trying to log in. 500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot () This is due to the following update: – Add stronger checks for the configuration error of running with a writeable root directory inside a chroot(). This [...]

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