The container doesn't support user chrooting

[lpereir4]

The use of '-d /home/ftpusers/bob' (user chrooting) results in having this error when attempting to log in :
421 Home directory not available - aborting

If you do not intend to allow chrooting please update documentation (use of -D instead of -d)

[stilliard]

Hi @lpereir4,
Could you give me the steps/commands used to reproduce this error as i'm not currently see'ing it?

Also yes my demo command in the README if for a chrooted account to a specific folder, this is just a demo showing its usage, but i've now updated the doc's to say that this is a chrooted example.

[lpereir4]

Hi @stilliard,

My host distribution is CentOS 7. I used the makefile and followed the README for user creation.

make build
make run
pure-pw useradd bob -u ftpuser -d /home/ftpusers/bob
pure-pw mkdb

Both command line ftp client and filezilla fails to connect :

220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] [TLS] ----------
220-You are user number 1 of 30 allowed.
220-Local time is now 17:49. Server port: 21.
220-This is a private system - No anonymous login
220-IPv6 connections are also welcome on this server.
220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Name: bob
331 User bob OK. Password required
Password:
421 Home directory not available - aborting
ftp: Login failed

[stilliard]

Just double checking, the pure-pw commands, they have been run inside the docker container, not on the
host right?

[lpereir4]

inside the docker container of course.

[stilliard]

Cool, just double checking as i've repeated the steps myself but i'm still
not see'ing this sorry.
Could you check inside the container that the "/home/ftpusers/bob" has been
created? It should automatically be created for you though.

[lpereir4]

Indeed, the directory has been created.

[stilliard]

Strange, one other check, is the user ftpuser setup in the container, it should already be as its built from the dockerfile?

The only other thing i can suggest is to try pulling from the hub repo rather than building from here:

# on host to start, pull down and start the instance:
sudo docker pull stilliard/pure-ftpd
sudo docker run -i -t -p 21:21 stilliard/pure-ftpd

# now inside the container
pure-pw useradd bob -u ftpuser -d /home/ftpusers/bob
# enter a random password
pure-pw mkdb

# back on host
ftp -p localhost 21

I just followed the above process to double check and that worked for me.
Does this now work for you? Or do you still get the 421 error?

[lpereir4]

Pulling from the hub works.
The new version of pure-ftpd is certainly the cause the issue.

[stilliard]

Closing as I believe this is now resolved.
Please re-open if this issue comes back, thank you.