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Summary

FTP is short for File Transfer Protocol. It is used for control bidirectional transmission of files on the Internet. It can also refer to the application that use FTP to transfer files. Users often encounter two concepts when using FTP: download and upload. The former refers to copying files from any remote server to local disk, and the later refers to copying files from local disk to any remote server.

Installation

To install vsftpd for providing FTP service, execute in terminal:

sudo apt-get install vsftpd

Uninstallation

To uninstall vsftpd, execute in terminal:

sudo apt-get remove vsftpd

Configuration

To set the state of FTP service:

service vsftpd start ## Start FTP server

service vsftpd stop ## Stop FTP server

service vsftpd restart ## Restart FTP server

There are three configuration files used by FTP service, all located in directory /etc/vsftpd:

ftpusers Used for specifying the users that are forbidden to access FTP server

user_list Whitelist or blacklist of accounts

vsftpd.conf Main configuration file of vsftpd

To modify the configuration of vsftpd, execute in terminal:

sudo gedit /etc/vsftpd.conf

Lines that are related to controls of user login:

anonymous_enable=YES ## Allow anonymous login

no_anon_password=YES ## Allow anonymous login without password

local_enable=YES ## Allow local users to log in

deny_email_enable=YES ## Create blacklist file for email addresses for preventing Dos attack

banned_email_file=/etc/vsftpd/banned_emails ## Directory used for save blacklist files of email addresses

Lines that are related to controls of user permission:

write_enable=YES ## Enable global upload

local_umask=022 ## Set umask to 022 for all uploaded files

anon_upload_enable=YES ## Allow anonymous user to upload. This should be used with "write_enable=YES", as well as a writable directory created for ftp users

anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES ## Allow anonymous user to create directories

chown_uploads=YES ## Change owner of uploaded files to other user, usually root

chown_username=whoever ## The owner of all uploaded files

chroot_list_enable=YES ## Users restricted in their own directories

chroot_list_enable=/etc/vsftpd/chroot_list ## File that contains the users restricted in their own directories

nopriv_user=ftpsecure ## A secure account specified for vsftpd to run as

Lines that are related to controls of connections and timeouts:

idle_session_timeout=600 ## Default timeout for login session

data_connection_timeout=120 ## Default timeout for data connection

Lines that are related to controls of server journals and welcome message:

dirmessage_enable=YES ## Show messages when users entering a new directory

ftpd_banner=Welcome to XXX FTP service. ## A welcome message shown to users

xferlog_enable=YES ## Enable login

xferlog_file=/var/log/xferlog ## Place to store log file

It is recommended to leave other lines untouched.

Please restart vsftpd service to make changes take effect.

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