Most Linux software products are available in a precompiled package format. Downloading and installing packages isn’t hard. If you need a refresher, Chapter 6, “Installing Linux Software“, covers how to do this in detail. It is best to use the latest version of VSFTPD.

When searching for the file, remember that the VSFTPD packages’ filename usually starts with the word vsftpd followed by a version number, as in vsftpd-1.2.1-5.i386.rpm for Redhat/Fedora or vsftpd_2.0.4-0ubuntu4_i386.deb for Ubuntu.

How To Get VSFTPD Started

With Fedora, Redhat, Ubunbtu and Debian You can start, stop, or restart VSFTPD after booting by using these commands:

[root@bigboy tmp]# /etc/init.d/vsftpd start
[root@bigboy tmp]# /etc/init.d/vsftpd stop
[root@bigboy tmp]# /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart

With Redhat / Fedora you can configure VSFTPD to start at boot you can use the chkconfig command.

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Here is how to implement a “Very Secure” FTP server with virtual users. This has maximum security as we are implementing virtual FTP users instead of system users.

1. Edit the file /etc/vsftpd/logins.txt and add usernames and passwords (one line each, no spaces) like this: Read the rest of this entry »

VSFTPD is a secure, robust FTP server on Unix/Linux system. It not only can handle local users but also virtual users. Virtual users have to use username and password to access ftp server instead of anonymous user. I helped to set a VSFTPD server recently to handle virtual users on a Debian/Ubuntu server system. It took me a while to get everything fixed. I’d like to write down all bits I encountered and went through. Hopefully it is useful to new comers. The main idea and configuration was from the two reference posts listed at the end of the article. The authors of these articles should get major credits. I just read and modified what they suggested and combined them together.

Install and configure VSFTPD

On a Debian/Ubuntu server system, it is pretty easy to install vsftpd server package. If you are not sure the package name please use apt-cache search to search package database. The following Linux command can easily install VSFTPD to your system.

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