Cannot connect to VSFTP

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Shaggs
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Cannot connect to VSFTP

Post by Shaggs » 2018/03/24 00:54:50

I have a new Centos installation, and I'm trying to get vsftp going on it.

When I try to connect to it (FTP client is FileZilla on windows), I get the following message:

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Status: Connecting to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:21...
Status: Connection established, waiting for welcome message...
Status: Insecure server, it does not support FTP over TLS.
Command: USER ftpuser
Response: 331 Please specify the password.
Command: PASS ************* Response: 530 Login incorrect.
Error: Critical error: Could not connect to server
The contents of my vsftpd.conf are:

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anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022
dirmessage_enable=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
xferlog_std_format=YES
ftpd_banner=Welcome to our FTP service.
chroot_local_user=YES
chroot_list_enable=YES
chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd/chroot_list
listen=NO
listen_ipv6=YES
pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES
I've made sure I'm not connecting to the wrong ftp service, by stopping vsftpd, and trying to connect. I then get ECONNREFUSED, so I am pretty sure it is vsftp that I am trying to connect to.

I have double checked the passwords by switching to this user in ssh (su ftpuser), and the password used in the FTP client works there.

What am I missing? What would stop a valid user authenticating?

Please let me know if this is the wrong place to be posting this.

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