Most of the times I face issue in configuring FTP on Linux platform as a lot many types of FTP servers are available and each one has different properties. In this post, I am going to share info about one such FTP server which is most common and using simple steps, we can configure it. So here it goes.
I am going to discuss about vsftpd. First you need to install it onto your ubuntu box. For that, enter the following command:-
Once its installed, you can see its conf file in /etc with name vsftpd.conf . There you can specify the access_type ie, whether you want to allow anonymous access or local_access. By default, local access is enabled, so anyone with the username "anonymous" can login to ftp server. To allow only authenticated users to be able to access FTP server, you need to change the access_type to local_access. One can do this by editing the vsftpd.conf file, commenting the "anonymous_enable=NO" and adding "local_enable=YES".
Once you are done with the changes, restart the service.
Once its done, are done with the setup of FTP server. Now you need to keep following things in mind:-
You cannot connect to FTP server by using the username as "root" as it might give error.
For that, use username "ftp" or any user which is present on that machine except root.
Use the default credentials of that account to log in.
Default Directory:-
Default directory in this case is the home directory of the user with whose name you have logged in. So if you have a user "rahul" and you have logged in via that username, then the default directory of ftp will be "/home/rahul" . If you will do "ls" once you are connected to that server, it will list all the files present in that directory.
If you want to allow user to write to that directory, then you have to accordingly change the setting in vsftpd.conf file and enable that flag.
Hope this will solve some of the problems which users face due to vsftpd.
I am going to discuss about vsftpd. First you need to install it onto your ubuntu box. For that, enter the following command:-
rahul@ubuntu$ sudo apt-get install vsftpd
Once its installed, you can see its conf file in /etc with name vsftpd.conf . There you can specify the access_type ie, whether you want to allow anonymous access or local_access. By default, local access is enabled, so anyone with the username "anonymous" can login to ftp server. To allow only authenticated users to be able to access FTP server, you need to change the access_type to local_access. One can do this by editing the vsftpd.conf file, commenting the "anonymous_enable=NO" and adding "local_enable=YES".
rahul@ubuntu$ sudo vi /etc/vsftpd.conf
Once you are done with the changes, restart the service.
rahul@ubuntu$ sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart
Once its done, are done with the setup of FTP server. Now you need to keep following things in mind:-
You cannot connect to FTP server by using the username as "root" as it might give error.
For that, use username "ftp" or any user which is present on that machine except root.
Use the default credentials of that account to log in.
Default Directory:-
Default directory in this case is the home directory of the user with whose name you have logged in. So if you have a user "rahul" and you have logged in via that username, then the default directory of ftp will be "/home/rahul" . If you will do "ls" once you are connected to that server, it will list all the files present in that directory.
If you want to allow user to write to that directory, then you have to accordingly change the setting in vsftpd.conf file and enable that flag.
Hope this will solve some of the problems which users face due to vsftpd.
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