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vsftpd is a secure and fast FTP server for UNIX-like systems that is used on many large and critical Internet sites. Its rich feature set includes SSL encryption, IPv6, bandwidth throttling, PAM integration, virtual users, virtual IPs and per-user / per-IP configuration. Note: Questions MUST be programming related.

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About vsftpd

vsftpd is a GPL licensed FTP server for UNIX systems, including Linux. It is secure and extremely fast. It is stable. Don't take my word for it, though. Below, we will see evidence supporting all three assertions. We will also see a list of a few important sites which are happily using vsftpd. This demonstrates vsftpd is a mature and trusted solution. Features

Despite being small for purposes of speed and security, many more complicated FTP setups are achievable with vsftpd! By no means an exclusive list, vsftpd will handle:

  • Virtual IP configurations
  • Virtual users
  • Standalone or inetd operation
  • Powerful per-user configurability
  • Bandwidth throttling
  • Per-source-IP configurability
  • Per-source-IP limits
  • IPv6
  • Encryption support through SSL integration
  • etc...
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Server vsFTPd connection failed

I am trying to connect on ftp localhost but the login/password always fail. I have installed vsFTPd. I guess i have to modify passwd.conf. But how must I process? I have this line : paul:x:1000:1000:paul,,,:/home/paul:/bin/false Thank you!
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One apache web server, multiple sites and users

I run a home server with Ubutnu 16.04 with Apache 2 let say for fun and to improve my linux knowledge At the moment I have few web applications/websites which are for personal use (bug tracker, forum, cloud and similar) All this sites are under…
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Restricting a user for FTP

How would I go about restricting a user to a specified folder such as /var/www/html/ I already have this location as their default landing location for FTP, but I need to restrict them specifically to this location, I don't want them to be able to…
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Permission with FTP user

I have created a ftp user called " ftp_user " but whenever something is uploaded or created via this user, the permission becomes 600 and the group owner also changes to ftp_user This makes it unreadable for the www-data user ( web server user ) I…
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In CentOS, can not connect ftp. (ftp was set by vsftp)

vsftpd‘s…
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vsftpd not in netstat

I install vsftpd on Ubuntu mate. I do everything by this manual: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-vsftpd-to-use-ssl-tls-on-an-ubuntu-vps Result is the vsftpd is rununing as process "ps -aux", but if I write "netstat…
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python script that connects with vsftpd

I have the following issue... i need to connect to sftp(vsftpd) through python script, upload a file and download it. So far i have created ftp server with vsftpd but i cannot connect. If i use the terminal(ftp localhost) i can log in without any…
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vsftpd : 500 OOPS: cannot read config file: 127.0.0.1

I have installed vsftpd on my CentOS VM rpm -qa | grep vsftp vsftpd-2.2.2-13.el6_6.1.x86_64 vsftpd is running service vsftpd status vsftpd (pid 14806) is running... But I am unable to do ftp localhost or vsftpd 127.0.0.1 and it says …
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How can I use Filezilla and vsftpd to write to an AWS EC2 instance of Ubuntu 14.04?

I use FileZilla and vsftpd on another server and understand that I have to change vsftpd.conf and uncomment the line(s) that say: # Uncomment this to allow local users to log in. local_enable=YES # # Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write…
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How to configure vsftpd to send me an email on user login process?

I want to send a mail to abc@abcd.com when someone is logging in via FTP. I have tried using /etc/pam.d/vsftpd "session optional pam_exec.so /path/to/my/emailing_script.sh" but it doesn't work (i have tested this script in /etc/pam.d/sshd and it…
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vsftpd: PAM unable to dlopen(pam_mariadb_mtr.so)

I try to configure VSFTPD with MariaDB. I would like use PAM for more simplicity and i got this error in auth.log : vsftpd: PAM unable to dlopen(pam_mariadb_mtr.so): /lib/security/pam_mariadb_mtr.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or…
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vsftpd config work in one server but not in other

I am seting up an ec2 instance. It has a very similar configuration with another instance I have seted up, but for some reason I can make vsftpd work in the new one. This is my config…
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using vsftpd with inotify IN_CLOSE_WRITE event

I'm trying to write event based ftp server that notifies me when some user uploads any file(users will never do any delete or other stuff, they just upload). Apache ftpServer with ftplets is what I need but it is java based and does not satisfy my…
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Access VSFTPD, Ubuntu 12.04 from anywhere

I have vsftpd set up at my home PC. I use a airtel broadband connection with a router, hence I have a public IP address and then a private IP address, none of which is static. Locally I can access my FTP through my private IP address, I wanted to…
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filezilla can't connect to vsftpd with TLS, but does work with unencrypted connection

I set up my server on centos7 From client side(not localhost), I can connect and transfer files to server with unencrypted connection but can't connect with TLS It's my…
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