I setup VSFTPD on my Ubuntu server 12.04, it worked very good. Until I tried to change the permissions of the user so the user couldn't go in the / directory and only in the directories inside /home/user/public_html.

It could have to do something with the fact that I did this:

sudo chmod 700 -R /

I have a user, ftpUser and he is inside a group, ftpUsers. The permissions of /home/user/public_html are:

drwxrwxr-x 9 ftpUser ftpUsers 4096

My VSFTPD file looks like this:

listen=YES

anonymous_enable=NO

local_enable=YES

write_enable=YES

local_umask=022

connect_from_port_20=NO

chroot_local_user=YES

pam_service=vsftpd

userlist_file=/etc/vsftpd.userlist

userlist_enable=YES

userlist_deny=NO

And in /etc/vsftpd.userlist there is only one line: ftpUser

How do I solve this so I can login, it think it has to do something with permissions but I don't now what it is!?