How to properly configure vsftpd access for local users?

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linux

Hi all. Tell me where I could be wrong? An incomprehensible problem has arisen. Costs CentOS 6, decided to install vsftpd for ftp code editing. But I can't connect with root? nor other local users ( /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf has local_enable=YES ).
PSPAD connection log

15:17:30 >> Connecting to: **.***.***.**
15:17:30 << 220 (vsFTPd 2.2.2)
15:17:30 >> AUTH TLS
15:17:30 << 530 Please login with USER and PASS.
15:17:30 >> USER useruptimes
15:17:30 << 331 Please specify the password.
15:17:30 >> PASS xxxxx
15:17:31 << 530 Login incorrect.

If you allow anonymous users, then it is normal to connect through the browser. And if you disable it and through the browser does not work.
Tell me how to see the vsftpd log or where is it located?
Where can there be pitfalls?
Well, the question itself - Where did I go wrong? And how to set everything up correctly?
Thank you very much in advance.

I am attaching my config file vsftpd.

<code lang="bash">
# 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
#
# 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=whoever
#
# 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_local_user=YES
#chroot_list_enable=YES
# (default follows)\
#chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd/chroot_list
#
# 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 with two configuration files.
# Make sure, that one of the listen options is commented !!
#listen_ipv6=YES

pam_service_name=vsftp
userlist_enable=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES
local_enable=YES
</code>

Answer 1

If the version of vsftpd is without the fucking security patch, then https://debian.pro/files/anlamp/configs/vsftpd.conf

Answer 2

@inkvizitor68sl Hmm, surprisingly it worked, although I had to set chroot_local_user to NO to access the system root. Now it remains to understand what the problem was.
+ Can you please tell me how to view vsfptd logs? How to do it in Linux? And then my knowledge in it ends with ls cd and server start. By the way, now when restarting vsfptd in the restart status vsftpd_base FAIL What does this mean? Although everything works) puu.sh/7tMQQ.png

Answer 3

Anton Manevsky , pay attention to this comment and the comment that is written at the very beginning of the /etc/vsftpd.conf file !!!

...
# 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.
...

Clearly and clearly written "... This example file is an ex ...", i.e. this file by default contains a NOT working (generally working) example, but it (the example) cannot be used. Read the vsftpd.conf.5 "learning page" where you will fully understand all the vsftpd options.
In short, in the terminal (I have Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS on VPS) we write:
After we press Enter and we get a list of all options as well as a general description for this configuration file.
I have everything in English, but my knowledge of English is enough to set the options I need.
If YOU do not understand the material from man vsftpd.conf 5 , here is a translation of many options: www.opennet.ru/base/net/vsftpd_overview.txt.html