After upgrading vsftpd or vsftpd-ext 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 … Continue reading Fixing 500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot ()