Install and configure vsftp on CentOS/RHLE and Fedora distributions

Install and configure vsftp on CentOS/RHLE and Fedora distributions

The most widely used ftp implementation software in the Linux distribution is the vsftpd software package, which stands for Very Secure File Transfer Protocol Daemon. Use the following command to install it on CentOS/RHLE and Fedora distributions

yum -y install vsftpd

The purpose of this vsftpd configuration is not to access Anonymous and we set it so that only a specific user can access ftp. To get started, we need to create a group and user that acts as an Authenticated User

groupadd ftpusers

useradd -g ftpusers -d /var/ftprashvand rashvand

Executing the above commands creates a group and a user who owns the /var/ftprashvand directory. In fact, this directory is the user’s home directory. Now open the /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf  file

vi /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

And find the following parameters and change their values ​​as follows

The changes are made by changing NO to YES or vice versa, or by uncommenting the line of that parameter, ie removing the # sign from the beginning of that line

Note that YES and NO are large. Of course, some of the following parameters may already be our desired value, as well as Uncomment

Anonymous_enable=NO

local_enable=YES

ascii_upload_enable=YES

ascii_download_enable=YES

chroot_local_user=YES

chroot_list_enable=YES

chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd/chroot_list

ftpd_banner=Welcome to rashvand.ir FTP service

ls_recurse_enable=YES

listen=YES

listen_ipv6=NO

use_localtime=YES

seccomp_sandbox=NO

After making changes to the above parameters, open the chroot_list file with the following command and enter the username you created in it

vi /etc/vsftpd/chroot_list

(Each line contains the name of a local user (user on the ftp server

Rashvand

Finally run the following commands to start and activate the vsftpd service

systemctl start vsftpd.service

systemctl enable vsftpd.service