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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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AWS EC2 vsftpd shows file/directory owner as number (48)

question: I'm just getting into aws. I've installed vsftpd on my instance, set up usergroups and all that jazz. It works really well, except I've noticed that the owner on all the files are numbered. The owner isn't the user that that it should…
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How do I use vsftp to jail a user to a subdirectory of their home folder

How does one configure a user when they login to change root into a subdirectory of their home folder. ie /home/username/files
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vsftpd in a chrooted ubuntu environment on android

I'm running a chrooted ubuntu 12 distro on my Android GalaxyTab and myTouch 4G phone. I have the LAMP stack running and everything is pretty smooth, but I can't get this simple vsftpd to work on either devices. The only two lines I changed in…
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ASPX VSFTPD C# Help createing users

Is it possable to create a new user on a vsftpd server using the user and password from the authentication pages from MS's LOGIN methods? I also don't want to have to restart the vsftpd for them to gain access.
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Ansible Install & Configure FTP Server on Linux Playbook

I am trying to install and configure a FTP server using Ansible. I an running into syntax error. Can you please tell me correct syntax? I am not sure if it is a problem with looping through the list. The error message is not very helpful. It is…
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using google authenticator PAM with vsFTPd on RedHat

I have a requirement to use a TOTP-based authentication on some RedHat 8.7 servers running vsFTPd. I've managed to get TOTP working with vsFTPd on Debian / Ubuntu, but haven't had any luck so far on RedHat. I have been able to get TOTP working on…
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Can only see directories but no file in ftp (using VSFTPD)

I deploy a ftp server using VSFTPD, and trying to connect with it. Then something weird appears, I can only see directories but no file. I tried it using all kinds of my different physical machine and ftp client app, but it doesn't work. For…
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Changing default ftp directories in vsftpd

On my Godaddy dedicated server, I have to FTP files to a defined directory that I cannot change. This means I have to work on files locally, upload them to the FTP directory on the server, then move them to the web directory on the shell. How…
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vsftpd: OK LOGIN but getting repeated password prompt

I am trying to set up vsftpd on a Centos 7 server. We have a bunch of linux users with /usr/sbin/nologin shells just for the purpose of FTP. I also created a regular user testuser with a bash shell. Anonymous logins are disabled. When I try to login…
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Why do I get up to 99% error in Jmeter FTP request (Linux vsftpd) at over 50 users?

we are currently working on a school project in which we are comparing Windows and Linux server roles. We decided to use Jmeter for performance testing but we ran into some weird results for FTP requests. The tests were performed as 20 minutes of…
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SFTP batch file to copy from remote to local

I have some files in remote server. I need to copy those file from remote server to my local server. Source path : pABCDWPPP@170.20.100.10:/SRC_path (dummy server name) Target path : /data/TGT_path i have tried…
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If there a way to make vsftpd allow one user to access root directory, while other users get redirected to their home directory?

I'm running Raspbian Lite on a Raspberry Pi 2. I'm trying to have vsftpd set up with one user called admin to have root access for FTP, while all other users (such as filetransfer) get redirected to their home directory. Any help would be greatly…
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NetBeans - Upload on save fails, but it works with filezilla

I created a fresh ftp user named john and changed the owner of my project recursively to john:ftp-users. I tested the connection in NetBeans. I get connection successfull!. However, If I try to upload changes, then I get this: 227 Entering Passive…
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vsftpd will not start - no error messages

I'm trying to install and run vsftpd on a CentOS 7 server, but I'm running into the following problem. I ran yum install vsftpd but I can't start it: $ systemctl start vsftpd Job for vsftpd.service failed because the control process exited with…
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I can connect to ftp and create folder but can't create file or edit

I installed ubuntu server 16 on my personal server. I installed vsftpd and accessed ftp in lan with Cyberduck. It works. but when I accessed ftp from outer network. I can create a folder but I can't create file or edit file. It's stuck at…
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