On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote: > I installed vsftp on an ubuntu box, and set it up for a single user to > be able to move around the file system. They need to create folders in > /var/www. This works for them via ssh, but not vi vsftp. Any idea what > to change in vsftpd.conf to allow this? > > I'm going from memory here but I believe by default vsftp is setup to be read only. Look for something like write_enable in the vsftp.conf file and set it to yes.