ftp: connect :Connection refused

I have got an IP address from BandwagonHOST, and created a user with root privilege:

root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL shaw ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL 

installed vsftpd:

sudo apt-get install vsftpd sudo ufw status Status:inactive 

copied /etc/vsftpd.conffrom /etc/vsftpd.orig and configued it like the following:

anonymous_enable=NO# Example config file /etc/vsftpd.conf local_enable=YES write_enable=YES check_shell=NO local_umask=000 xferlog_enable=YES connect_from_port_20=YES xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log ftpd_banner=You made it! xferlog_std_format=YES chroot_local_user=YES allow_writeable_chroot=YES listen=NO seccomp_sandbox=NO userlist_enable=YES userlist_file=/etc/vsftpd.userlist userlist_deny=NO listen_ipv4=YES 

then I tried to test it and got this:

root@ubuntu:/# cat /etc/vsftpd.userlist shaw root@ubuntu:/# su - shaw shaw@ubuntu:~$ ftp 172.93.34.44 ftp: connect: Connection refused ftp> 

Any help will be appreciated.

The following is edited content:

I did miss the command service vsftpd start, and after that , got another problem:

initctl: Unable to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory vsftpd: unrecognized service. 

And the command sudo service status gave me the information vsftpd stop/waiting

Thank u for helping me.

1 Answer

I finally found a way to solve my problem.That was reinstalling vsftpd,and directly ran the service instead of after configuring.And it turned out that the /etc/vsftpd.conffile was the point.So I just added what I needed and tested vsftpd service after every adding action.