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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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Can't access EC2 instance running VSFTP from Filezilla

Following this article with slight modifications to /etc/vsftpd.conf, I've setup VSFTP on a laptop running Ubuntu 20.04, after configuring port forwarding on the router I was able to connect to it though FileZilla to transfer files. Contents of…
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Open port 21 for vsftpd at azure

Can't open port 21 on linux Ubuntu 18 at azure. I've configured vsftpd listen_port=21 pasv_enable=Yes pasv_addr_resolve=YES pasv_min_port=5001 pasv_max_port=5050 pasv_address=xx.xx.xx.xx I've configured NSG at azure, opened inbound port 21 and…
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Unable to start services in docker container

I'm trying to run a ftp service inside a docker container (plan is to deploy it to AKS). However, I'm unable to start the sshd and vsftpd services while running the container. Any help/guidance/pointer please. Here's the dockerfile I'm…
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Struggeling with vsftpd / apache2 on ubuntu 20.04

i installed vsftpd and got it running with user ftpuser. owner group of /var/www is set to ftpuser:ftpuser. I can upload view, edit and delete files, which is nice. but a website can't do anything: e.g. can't upload files via php, can't run…
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How do I configure vsftpd and openssl to avoid TLS unsupported protocol error with Sony Camera

I have a Sony a7iii camera that I'm trying to connect to a self-hosted vsftpd server. Connection works fine in FTP (unencrypted) mode but fails when I switch to encrypted mode per the log readout below. Have already followed the guide to prepare the…
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What is producing the vsftpd server error when configuring an SSL certificate?

My objective is to create an external ftp server on Ubuntu 20.04. My problem: When I configure the SSL certificate there is an (code=exited, Staus=2/INVALID ARGUMENT) error. The error logs are not precise and I would at least like to know how to get…
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Python ftplib TimeoutError: [WinError 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time

I am trying to connect to FTP using Python ftplib but it shows connection was successful but each time I run any server command it fails with TimeoutError. NOOP command shows 200 NOOP ok. response but when I try ftp.dir() or any server command it…
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How to tell vsftpd which ssl to use

I already have vsftp set up with an SSL which is working fine. The issue is that the SSL is for the server's host name and not one of my client's. This client has to be PCI compliant, so when the PCI scan takes place it checks the FTP ports and…
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How do I create a vsftpd server using docker container?

I'm using powershell to create the docker container so I found a dockerfile and tried to build the image using the dockerfile so I can create my docker container and once it ran it gave me this error "COPY failed: stat…
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Apache VFS - FTPS support for TLSv1

Please can someone tell me if Apache VFS 2.6.0 will support FTPS at TLSv1 ? The reason I ask is because we have written an application using VFS and developed it against VsFTPD 3.0.2 Now we have moved into testing we are seeing a lot of old machines…
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FTP connection working on FileZilla and command line but not python ftplib

I have an ftp server deployed on aws. I can connect to it from FileZilla as well as from the command line. However, the python script I have gives me: OSError: [Errno 101] Network is unreachable I know that my script works since I can connect to…
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ftplib.error_perm: 550 Create directory operation failed while using FTP_TLS

I am trying to connect to a secure FTP server created based on this link. I have not followed step 8 in the link. I am able to establish the connection and also change and print directories but am unable to create new directories. I am also unable…
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FTPS can't connect on android devices with self singed certificate

I have FTP server on Raspberry PI with Raspbian. I use vsftpd, port 990 and GreenLock cetificate. When I try connect from android device I get a message about the wrong version of the certificate. Before GreenLock I used ssl-cert-snakeoil, but for…
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python fptlib mlsd generator iteration error

I am looking for index.html file in ftp directory. according to docs they recommend mlsd. I am trying to print results and looking for files but its not working. I have tried via terminal and its working fine. #!/usr/bin/python3 from ftplib…
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Kubernetes ftp deploy simple example

Last week I was trying to deploy ftp in K8s but I cound not deploy it. I tried to find some simple example but I only found very hard examples. Can you give me some simple examples?
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