I am dealing with an issue I am unclear on how to resolve and have been pulling my hair out for some time. I have been trying to configure an FTP user using the following (we use this same documentation on all servers)

Install FTP Server

• apt-get install vsftpd Enable local_enable and write_enable to YES
• and anonymous user to NO in /etc/vsftpd.conf restart - service vsftpd
• restart - to allow changes to take place

Add WordPress User for FTP access in WP Admin

Create a fake shell for the user add "usr/sbin/nologin" to the bottom of the /etc/shells file

Add a FTP user account

• useradd username -d /var/www/ -s /usr/sbin/nologin
• passwd username

add these lines to the bottom of /etc/vsftpd.conf
- userlist_file=/etc/vsftpd.userlist - userlist_enable=YES - userlist_deny=NO

Add username to the list at top of /etc/vsftpd.userlist

• restart vsftpd "service vsftpd restart"
• make sure firewall is open for ftp "ufw allow ftp" allow
• modify the /var/www directory for username "chown -R /var/www

I have also went through everything listed on this post and no luck. I am getting connection refused.

Sorry for the poor text formatting above. I think you get the idea. This is something we do over and over and for some reason it is not cooperating here.

Setup is Ubuntu 12.04LTS and VSFTPD v2.3.5

Thank you in advance.