Linux Lab 16 Ftp Servers

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Lab 16 FTP servers Requirements

Quick Reference Objectives to learn

➢ One of the two selected FTP servers.

#FTP servers

#User 'daemon' or 'ftp' plus homedir

#Default SuSE and RedHat FTP server: vi /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

#/etc/init.d/vsftpd uses /var/ftp or

vi /etc/vsftpd.conf userlist_enable = yes

#Requires:

vi /etc/vsftpd.user_list

#Accept list

vi /etc/vsftpd.ftusers

#Deny list

vi /ftpdir/.message

#Welcome file

#SuSE uses vsftpd as a service of xinetd (See Lab 8)

To Do

#RedHat starts vsftpd as a stand alone daemon

1. Add an FTP server and make sure anonymous access is enabled.

#Optional Pure-ftp server: vi /etc/pure-ftp/pure-ftpd.conf

#/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd

2. Test the FTP connection from another machine.

usermod -d /var/ftp ftp

#Change ftp-directory

Theory Modules LPIC 1 Certification Bible, isbn 0-7645-4772-0 ➢ p. 605-616 Configuring an FTP server

Extra References ➢ www.tldp.org

© October 2, 2005, wiki.novell.com/index.php/Roberts_Quick_References, author of Foundations of Linux networking