Questions tagged [vsftpd]

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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Ftps server doesn't work properly using kubernetes

i have a problem with ftps-filezilla and Kubernetes for weeks. CONTEXT : I have a school project with Kubernetes and ftps. I need to create a ftps server in kubernetes in the port 21, and it needs to run on alpine linux. So i create an image of my…
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connection to ftp server running in docker

i have ftp server running in Docker container on windows host. i have mapped (-p) port 22 and 21 for SSH and FTP. i can't make successful FTP connection to ftp server from host. looks like ftp client (cute FTP) uses random ports to list directories…
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Does vsftpd supports mlsd command?

does vsftpd support mlsd command if it supports how can i enable it? or is there any other way to get list of file names and timestamp from a directory using python ftplib? tried nlst it only gives files names and for each file i have to sent MDTM…
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Create an S3 FTP server with s3fs+vsftpd error 500

in my project i have to run an Linux EC2 instance like an FTP server connected to my S3 bucket directly. After installing s3fs+fuse, vsftpd and all dependencies, configuring the conf files correctly, i do this: First i create my folder fo ftp…
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How to extract file name from vsftpd log with shell script?

I am using vsftpd and I want to extract the file name from successful uploads. Log example: Tue Feb 6 11:49:25 2018 [pid 13018] [xyz] OK UPLOAD: Client "1.2.3.4", "/filename.zip", 131072000 bytes, 19607.40Kbyte/sec Tue Feb 6 11:49:25 2018 [pid…
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Permission denied for new php files uploaded by ftp user

When i try to upload php file using vsftpd to /var/www/ and visit the file from web server i got this error, Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required …
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Docker: How to deploy a vsftpd instance?

Background: I'm starting to try web deployment on Docker. So now I have now: mariadb instance to hold all the data, the data directory is set as volume; php:fpm instance for individual websites, which volumes are set to the sub-directories of…
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Multiple Passive connections to vsftpd server

I am trying to upload multiple files simultaneously. after establishing a data connection in passive mode, my client sending another "pasv" request to the vsftp server to get server and port value. so that i can connect to the vsftpd using the new…
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Compiling vsftpd 3.0.0 is failing

I recently tried to compile vsftpd 3.0.0 but it fails due the following compile error: gcc -c seccompsandbox.c -O2 -fPIE -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wall -W - Wshadow -Werror -Wformat-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 …
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FTP Server integration with LDAP

I'm trying to authenticate vsftpd from LDAP(openldap) logins which hosted remotely another server. i.e.: We have a LDAP server and new users are created on them. I'd like to know if it is possible to use the same ldap users credential to…
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vsftpd - Cannot upload file. Get err: 553

I installed VSFTPD on Centos7 and tried to set up FTP. The vsftpd.conf file information is as…
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Vsftpd cannot list directories when tls is enabled

I set up an FTP service using vsftpd on one of my Ubuntu servers. When the data was transmitted in plaintext, everything worked fine. But I need the data transmission to be encrypted, so I tried to enable TLS in vsftpd.conf. Then it will not work…
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vsftpd, restrict FTP user to specific folder

On my Ubuntu 18.04 server I have created a FTP user (named ftphtm3) for which I want to restrict access to folder /var/www/html3 Here is what I have done so far: created a FTP directory /var/ftp/ftphtm3 and bound it to /var/www/html3, mount --bind…
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How to run vsftpd as non root in an ubuntu container?

I am trying to rebuild bogem/ftp to make the container run as non root. I created my own repo where you can find all the files. I build it locally: docker build -t bram_ftp:v0.4 . Sending build context to Docker daemon 8.704kB Step 1/17 : FROM…
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How to configure vsftpd with docker

I have been trying to configure a simple ftp server using the following docker container: https://hub.docker.com/r/fauria/vsftpd I deploy the container on an amazon ec2 instance with ports open for 20 and 21. my docker-compose is like this: version:…
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