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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.

Home page: https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html

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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C# FtpWebRequest with SSL to Ubuntu VSFTPD

I have spent hours trying to get the .NET FtpWebRequest library to communicate with my Ubuntu 16.04 FTP server using vsftpd over SSL. No matter what I try, I always end up with the exception "A call to SSPI failed. The message received was…
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Why does local user login to vsftpd not work?

I want to install vsftpd on ubuntu 14.04 server and access the files through an apache httpd. Following this guide thats my vsftpd.conf: # Example config file /etc/vsftpd.conf # # The default compiled in settings are fairly paranoid. This sample…
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login error vsftpd on centos7 azure box

I have installed vsftpd on centos 7.1 on an azure box. I have edited the file /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf so its contents are among others these below local_enable=YES write_enable=YES chroot_local_user=YES allow_writeable_chroot=YES I restarted the…
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Can't display files from a vsftpd server on centos 6

It's a Centos 6 running apache server and vsftpd server. Problem is not about connection, it's about displaying folder from local_root directory. Here is /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf : # Example config file /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf # # The default…
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Why can not stop vsftpd server?

I am use Ubuntu Linux, and when I run command netstat -lt, then show: tcp 0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN then I run command sudo service vsftpd stop, and run command netstat -lt again, the terminal will not…
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Writing permission with VSFTPD and Centos 6.2

I have a server with centos 6.2 with httpd and vsftpd. I have few web site in /var/www and i want to add a ftp user for each site. My user1 have a directory in /home/user1 and can read/write to it folder from ftp. (it's the user i use to ssh and…
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Users can't upload files, even with permissions set to them using vsftpd

I have a cloud hosting linux solution. I had vsftpd working on it, but after having issues and tinkering with a lot of settings, I now have an issue where users can login using FTP and connect to the correct home directory, navigate within it,…
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Set up FTP for use with WordPress on CentOS

I have recently set up WordPress on my VPS, and everything is working, except for FTP. I have vsftpd already installed, but have no idea how to configure a user and any general settings to work with WordPress. I currently cannot connect to the VPS…
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VSFTPD on windows and other issue

I have to build an vsftpd compatible ftp client. I am not sure about which protocol vsftpd follows, sftp or ftps, I am guessing sftp as i could connect some vsftpd client with port 21(ftp) and 22(sftp) but not 990(ftps). Now I have to communicate…
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How the files can have different umask value when upload the ftp though vsftpd?

Now, I want upload wordpress files to my VPS by vsftpd, and I know different files have different umask value in wordpress, and when I set the default umask in vsftpd configure file. such as set "local_umask=022", and all upload files umask value…
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/etc/vsftpd/_vsftpd.conf: binary operator expected on Red Hat

I'm running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga). Eerytime I try to start the vsftpd service, I recieved this error [root@localhost ~]# service vsftpd start /etc/init.d/vsftpd: line 40: [: /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf: binary operator…
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docker compose up vsftpd server exit with status code 2 at start and no logs available

I have a problem with docker container build on top of my dockerfile, indeed each time I use the command: docker compose up -d, the container created from that instantly exit with status code 2, and the command **docker compose logs ** give no…
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Not able to download files when switched from FTP to FTPS but able to list files. What changes should i do?

Previously when connected to a FTP server which was on filezilla server I was able to list files and download them but as I switched to FTPS on VSFTPD server the files are listed as it is but the download is not working. It doesn't show any error…
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VsFTPd/LDAP - automatically create a directory for a new user

I am trying to setup a FTP server. I am using VsFTPd on an Ubuntu server that will authenticate against an LDAP server. My users should have access to their personal directory (read/write), to their public directory (read/write), to the public…
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"php_connect_nonb() failed: No error (0)"

I need to send files to my ftp server(vsftpd) via php. When i call function print_r(error_get_last()); after ftp_put() i can see: Warning: ftp_put(): php_connect_nonb() failed: No error (0) Warning: ftp_put(): Switching to Binary mode. Fatal error:…
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