vsftpd: "530 permission denied" with any username

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[PROBLEM]
vsftpd would refuse login with *any* username, giving the error message:

530: permission denied

[SOLUTION]
The problem was, that the userlist option can either be used for denying access, or allowing access to all usernames listed in the "userlist_file" (usually "/etc/vsftpd_users").

In my case, the permission denied was caused by the following entry:

userlist_deny=NO

The default is "userlist_deny=YES", so uncommenting the above line solved my problem.

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[PROBLEM]
I was able to login to vsftp, browse the folders, but could not create any file or folder, because I always got the errormessage:

550 Permission denied.

[SOLUTION]
By default, the "write_enable" option is commented out in "/etc/vsftpd.conf". Enable it to look like this:

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# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
write_enable=YES