FTP and FTPS in LINUX

vsftpd is lightweight, highly stable, secure, and fast FTP server for Linux environment. vsftpd also supports virtual ip, virtual users, bandwidth throttling, IPv6, encryption etc..

This article provides step-by-step instructions to set up FTP Server on your LINUX machine:

STEP-1

Install vsftpd:

STEP-2

Configure your vsfpd configuration file. You can find it on location /etc/vsftpd.conf

Uncomment following options in vsftpd.conf file:

STEP-3

Restart vsftpd service:

Now, you can access you FTP server on port 21.

Test your set up:

For more configuration details, follow the link:

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/en/man5/vsftpd.conf.5.html

Here, you can find more description of vsftpd configuration parameters.

Change Default Port VSFTPD

VSFTPD default port is 21. If you want to change default port to any other port, follow the steps:

Add following options to vsftpd.conf:

Allow outbound rule in firewall for these passive ports. You can save these using iptables:

Restart your vsftpd service after changing ports:

Enable SSL/TLS/FTPS

Add the following options in vsftpd.conf file to enable FTPS:

No need to create a certificate if openssl package is installed!

Restart your vsftpd service:

Both FTP and FTPS using vsftpd

If you want to start your FTP and FTPS server simultaneously, you can achieve it by starting 2 services of vsfpd.

1)      Copy /etc/vsftpd.conf to /etc/vsftpd-ssl.conf

2)      Edit and configure /etc/vsfpd-ssl.conf for FTPS server.

3)      Save it.

4)      First start vsftpd service (FTP) sudo service vsftpd start

5)      Now, start vsftpd service for FTPS:   sudo vsftpd /etc/vsftpd-ssl.conf

— Sharad Sinha

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