New Cloudman instance: anonymous FTP only

Question: New Cloudman instance: anonymous FTP only

4.6 years ago by

mg1655 • 20

United States

mg1655 • 20 wrote:

Hi,

I have just launched a new cluster using cloudman

Running Galaxy at revision: 11219:5c789ab4144a

I'd like to upload a new custom genome and some previously published transcriptomic data for it.

I'm trying to use FTP to upload the data but everytime I get this response (both using my ftp gui client and mac os x command line)

"530 This FTP server is anonymous only."

Is there additional configuration I have to do to make the FTP work out of the box? All that I've read so far seems to suggest that it should just work out of the box.

Thanks!

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modified 4.6 years ago by Marco Blanchette • 10 • written 4.6 years ago by mg1655 • 20

I can confirm this is a bug -- you're not doing anything wrong. I'll reply with a solution shortly.

ADD REPLY • link written 4.6 years ago by Dannon Baker ♦ 3.7k

Fixed thanks!!

One comment though, it will only works with active transfer (both my command line ftp and FileZilla are set to passive by default and have to be manually set to active).

Would it make sense to open the ports for passive (not sure what range proftpd is set to)? I'm not a security guy, but is there any reason why not opening it?

ADD REPLY • link written 4.6 years ago by Marco Blanchette • 10

4.6 years ago by

Dannon Baker ♦ 3.7k

United States

Dannon Baker ♦ 3.7k wrote:

This will be fixed in the next Cloudman release, but for right now here are some steps you can follow to get it working on your instance right now:

1) SSH to the instance `ssh -i your_keypair.pem ubuntu@<your_instance>` (or, if you set a cloudman administrative password, you can use that instead of the keypair)

(stay as the 'ubuntu' user for all of these commands)

2) `sudo apt-get remove vsftpd`

3) `sudo ln -s /usr/proftpd /mnt/galaxy/tools/proftpd`

4) `sudo /etc/init.d/proftpd start`

And you should be immediately able to connect via FTP with your galaxy email/password.

ADD COMMENT • link modified 4.6 years ago • written 4.6 years ago by Dannon Baker ♦ 3.7k

Thanks! This worked for me.

ADD REPLY • link written 4.6 years ago by mg1655 • 20

4.6 years ago by

Jennifer Hillman Jackson ♦ 25k

United States

Jennifer Hillman Jackson ♦ 25k wrote:

Hello,

This should be functional, but it does require some set-up when the instance is first initialized. The first item to check is that the inbound connections are set up, as described in step #6 on this wiki:

https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/CloudMan/AWS/GettingStarted

Best, Jen, Galaxy team

ADD COMMENT • link written 4.6 years ago by Jennifer Hillman Jackson ♦ 25k

Thanks for your reply. I used the interface (https://usegalaxy.org/cloudlaunch) to automatically launch my cloudman, so those settings were all there already.

It says "Anonymouse FTP only," so it seems to be a settings issue rather than a ports issue?

Custom TCP Rule	TCP	1 - 65535	sg-4a46c22f (CloudMan)
Custom TCP Rule	TCP	42284	0.0.0.0/0
SSH	TCP	22	0.0.0.0/0
HTTP	TCP	80	0.0.0.0/0
All ICMP	All	N/A	sg-4a46c22f (CloudMan)
Custom UDP Rule	UDP	1 - 65535	sg-4a46c22f (CloudMan)
Custom TCP Rule	TCP	30000 - 30100	0.0.0.0/0
Custom TCP Rule	TCP	20 - 21	0.0.0.0/0

ADD REPLY • link written 4.6 years ago by mg1655 • 20

Right, Cloudlaunch sets this up for you. Dannon (one of the Cloudman developers) uncovered the root issue. Glad the current workaround is helping.

ADD REPLY • link written 4.6 years ago by Jennifer Hillman Jackson ♦ 25k

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