To set up vsftpd FTP server in Ubuntu: Get vsftpd from here, which was found through this website. $ tar zxf vsftpd-2.2.2.tar.gz $ cd vsftpd-2.2.2 $ make $ sudo make install to make install work properly you have to follow the INSTALL textfile in the current directory (the directory where you untarred the vsftpd. for example I did: $ make $ ls -l vsftpd # as supposed by the INSTALL file $ useradd nobody $ mkdir /usr/share/empty/ $ mkdir /home/morteza/Desktop/tempftp/ #this will be the home of the FTP $ useradd -d /home/morteza/Desktop/tempftp/ ftp $ chown root.root /var/ftp $ chmod og-w /var/ftp $ mkdir /usr/local/man/man5 $ mkdir /usr/local/man/man8 $ cp vsftpd.conf /etc $ vsftpd & $ sudo vsftpd /etc/vstftd.conf $ copy some files or directories to your ftp home above You can now connect to the ftp! There was more steps to do in the INSTALL file. but up to here that worked! you can get files from your ftp! --- I tried to restart vsftpd or stop it but when you run it it would lock the command line to its input and doesnot execute other commands unless you exit it by pressing CTRL+c . I probably should have gone through the rest of the steps! when I checked it by $ sudo apt-cache search vsf it could be found installed. Anyway, I didn't have time so I just fixed it by $ sudo apt-get install vsftpd and it worked fine. this action as far as I noticed added vsftpd to the /etc/init.d/ and instead of executing vsftpd itself by executing that particular new vsftpd executor it will execute as a service and you will have the command line after that. e.g. you can have $ sudo /etc/init.d/vasftpd strat OR restart OR stop $ ftp localhost ftp> username: anonymous password: #There is no password ftp> cd E-Books ftp> get "my ebook.pdf" ftp> quit for the users to be able to download the file, with the default setting the bit modes of the file have to poit to root and havereadable permission. $ sudo chown root:root filename to set the user owner and group $ sudo chmode +r filename iptables configuration
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