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I'm struggling in creating an FTP user on a Linux server using the command line.

  • I installed vsftpd
  • Then i created a user using multiple commands for multiple times like
sudo adduser --home /home/testuser testuser --no-create-home
  • Added password to it,
  • Edited etc/vsftpd.conf file,
  • enabled chroot_local_user=YES,
  • Added user name to config files, etc etc. But none seems to work.
  • They are getting created as SFTP users. I disabled the SSH access and then it stopped for FTP too.
  • What all I need is to do is simply set up an FTP user and jail them to a path without SSH access. Can anyone help? I had gone through a lot of posts. But still no solution.
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Instead of trying vsftpd, I used ProFTP and it worked. I followed the below steps and it worked.

ProFTP Setup in Linux:

sudo apt-get install proftpd (to install)
sudo apt-get remove proftpd (to uninstall)
  • Edit the ProFTP configuration file located at /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf to update specific settings
sudo vi /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
  • Make sure the ServerName and MasqueradeAddress are set to the current machine’s Public or Elastic IP Address.
  • Set RequireValidShell to false. Set DefaultRoot to ~ to jail users to their home directories only.
ServerName                      "54.187.75.250"
ServerType                      standalone
MasqueradeAddress         54.187.75.250
RequireValidShell               off
DefaultRoot                     ~
PassivePorts                  50000 51000
<IfModule mod_facts.c>
    FactsAdvertise off
</IfModule>

Creating an ftp user

  • Add a ftp user to the system
sudo useradd -m ftpuser (the -m option is to create a home directory for the user)
  • Set user’s password
sudo passwd ftpuser
  • At a later time, you may delete the user by executing
sudo deluser ftpuser

  • Test if FTP server is up and running from a remote machine, login using the id/pwd of the newly created ftpuser Transfer files back and forth.

  • Restart FTP server

sudo service proftpd restart
sudo /etc/init.d/proftpd start
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There are lot more FTP serves like vsftpd, ProFTP, and PureFTP. But with vsftpd there are known issues. That's right. You can use ProFTP and I followed the same method using ProFTP. It worked.

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