How to fix: 500 OOPS: chroot Login failed for vsftpd

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Issue

When a user attempts to connect to a vsftpd server they get the following error:

500 OOPS: chroot
Login failed.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.X

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