550 Failed to change directory from FireFTP to CentOS 5.7 VSFTPD

When trying to connect from Mozilla's FireFTP using anonymous or a FTP user on the CentOS 5.7, using VSFTPD I get the following error:

550 Failed to change directory.

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This is what I have in my vsftpd.conf file:

# Example config file /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf # # The default compiled in settings are fairly paranoid. This sample file # loosens things up a bit, to make the ftp daemon more usable. # Please see vsftpd.conf.5 for all compiled in defaults. # # READ THIS: This example file is NOT an exhaustive list of vsftpd options. # Please read the vsftpd.conf.5 manual page to get a full idea of vsftpd's # capabilities. # # Allow anonymous FTP? (Beware - allowed by default if you comment this out). anonymous_enable=YES # # Uncomment this to allow local users to log in. local_enable=YES # # Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command. write_enable=YES # # Default umask for local users is 077. You may wish to change this to 022, # if your users expect that (022 is used by most other ftpd's) local_umask=022 anon_root=/var/ftp/pub/incoming # Uncomment this to allow the anonymous FTP user to upload files. This only # has an effect if the above global write enable is activated. Also, you will # obviously need to create a directory writable by the FTP user. anon_upload_enable=YES # # # Uncomment this if you want the anonymous FTP user to be able to create # new directories. anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES # # Activate directory messages - messages given to remote users when they # go into a certain directory. dirmessage_enable=YES # # The target log file can be vsftpd_log_file or xferlog_file. # This depends on setting xferlog_std_format parameter xferlog_enable=YES # # Make sure PORT transfer connections originate from port 20 (ftp-data). connect_from_port_20=YES # # If you want, you can arrange for uploaded anonymous files to be owned by # a different user. Note! Using "root" for uploaded files is not # recommended! chown_uploads=YES chown_username=ftp # # The name of log file when xferlog_enable=YES and xferlog_std_format=YES # WARNING - changing this filename affects /etc/logrotate.d/vsftpd.log #xferlog_file=/var/log/xferlog # # Switches between logging into vsftpd_log_file and xferlog_file files. # NO writes to vsftpd_log_file, YES to xferlog_file xferlog_std_format=YES # # You may change the default value for timing out an idle session. #idle_session_timeout=600 # # You may change the default value for timing out a data connection. #data_connection_timeout=120 # # It is recommended that you define on your system a unique user which the # ftp server can use as a totally isolated and unprivileged user. #nopriv_user=ftpsecure # # Enable this and the server will recognise asynchronous ABOR requests. Not # recommended for security (the code is non-trivial). Not enabling it, # however, may confuse older FTP clients. #async_abor_enable=YES # # By default the server will pretend to allow ASCII mode but in fact ignore # the request. Turn on the below options to have the server actually do ASCII # mangling on files when in ASCII mode. # Beware that on some FTP servers, ASCII support allows a denial of service # attack (DoS) via the command "SIZE /big/file" in ASCII mode. vsftpd # predicted this attack and has always been safe, reporting the size of the # raw file. # ASCII mangling is a horrible feature of the protocol. #ascii_upload_enable=YES #ascii_download_enable=YES # # You may fully customise the login banner string: #ftpd_banner=Welcome to blah FTP service. # # You may specify a file of disallowed anonymous e-mail addresses. Apparently # useful for combatting certain DoS attacks. #deny_email_enable=YES # (default follows) #banned_email_file=/etc/vsftpd/banned_emails # # You may specify an explicit list of local users to chroot() to their home # directory. If chroot_local_user is YES, then this list becomes a list of # users to NOT chroot(). #chroot_list_enable=YES # (default follows) #chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list chown_uploads=YES # You may activate the "-R" option to the builtin ls. This is disabled by # default to avoid remote users being able to cause excessive I/O on large # sites. However, some broken FTP clients such as "ncftp" and "mirror" assume # the presence of the "-R" option, so there is a strong case for enabling it. #ls_recurse_enable=YES # # When "listen" directive is enabled, vsftpd runs in standalone mode and # listens on IPv4 sockets. This directive cannot be used in conjunction # with the listen_ipv6 directive. listen=YES # # This directive enables listening on IPv6 sockets. To listen on IPv4 and IPv6 # sockets, you must run two copies of vsftpd whith two configuration files. # Make sure, that one of the listen options is commented !! #listen_ipv6=YES  pam_service_name=vsftpd userlist_enable=YES tcp_wrappers=YES

ftp user and user has assigned password

[root@localhost vsftpd]# grep ftp /etc/passwd ftp:x:14:50:FTP User:/var/ftp:/sbin/nologin

This what I have set on SELinux:

[root@localhost vsftpd]# sestatus SELinux status:                 disabled  [root@localhost vsftpd]# getenforce Disabled

These are the permissions of the individual folders:

ftp permissions ll /var total 208 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Oct 30 17:58 account drwxr-xr-x 13 root root   4096 O/var/ftp/pub/uploadct 30 18:25 cache drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 May 11  2011 crash drwxr-xr-x  3 root root   4096 Oct 30 17:58 db drwxr-xr-x  3 root root   4096 Oct 30 18:00 empty drwxr-xr-x  4 root root   4096 Dec 28 21:59 ftp drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 May 11  2011 games drwxrwx--T  2 root gdm    4096 Dec 28 21:56 gdm drwxr-xr-x 33 root root   4096 Oct 30 19:12 lib drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 May 11  2011 local drwxrwxr-x  6 root lock   4096 D/var/ftp/pub/uploadec 29 04:02 lock drwxr-xr-x 17 root root   4096 Dec 29 04:03 log drwx------  2 root root  16384 Oct 30 17:52 lost+found lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     10 Oct 30 17:54 mail -> spool/mail drwxr-x---  5 root named  4096 Nov 17 17:22 named drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 May 11  2011 nis drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 May 11  2011 opt drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 May 11  2011 preserve drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Aug 25  2010 racoon drwxr-xr-x 25 root root   4096 Dec 29 22:37 run drwxr-xr-x 16 root root   4096 Oct 30 18:22 spool drwxrwxrwt  2 root root   4096 Dec 29 22:29 tmp drwx------  2 root root   4096 Jan  6  2007 tux drwxr-xr-x  8 root root   4096 Oct 20 17:05 www drwxr-xr-x  3 root root   4096 Oct 30 18:00 yp  pub permissions [root@localhost vsftpd]# ll /var/ftp total 12 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 21:59 incoming drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Dec 29 23:40 pub  incoming permissions [root@localhost vsftpd]# ll /var/ftp/pub total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29 23:40 incoming drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 29 23:27 upload

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Any help would be appreciated as I cannot log in as an ftp user or anonymous user.

I did a chown ftp:ftp /var/ftp and a chmod -w /var/ftp and I get the following error message now when trying to connect to server using FireFTP:

500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable anonymous root

Can someone tell me if my vsftpd.conf file is setup correctly because I still cannot log onto the server with the ftp user or the anonymous user?