Wednesday, July 20, 2011

FTP server in Linux

Linux comes with various type of ftp server:
                  proftpd
                  vsftpd
                  ftpd
                  wu-ftpd
                  pure-ftpd

i tried vsftpd

so first of all you have to install it on your computer
#sudo apt-get install vsftpd

you can find its configuration file at  /etc/vsftpd.conf
if you want to change something in this file you can change
#vi /etc/vsftpd.conf

you will get lot of option there like
       local_enable=YES
remove comments from the option that you want to use

if u want to enable upload a file on your server
          write_enable=YES

if u want to restrict user to their home directories
          chroot_local_user=YES

start your FTP server
#/etc/initd/vsftpd restart

at ftp client to connect to server type:
#ftp 10.100.98.91

if you want some help then type help to know command to work on FTP..

to get more help  

working of FTP