How to configure ftp server on centos 6

ftp userpassword

 useradd -d /var/ftp/pub/mail u1

Create a symbolic link relative to the current directory

[root@mail /]# ln -s /home /var/ftp/pub/mail

cd /home

chmod -R 755 home

FTP – File transfer protocol is used to transfer files from one host to another over TCP . Configuring ftp server on linux is safe and secure .

In this article we can see how to configure ftp server on centos 6 . please follow the steps.

Configuring ftp server on Centos 6:

Step 1 » Vsftpd is a lightweight FTP server package for Centos (linux) . Start installing package by issuing below command.

[root@leela ~]# yum -y install vsftpd

Step 2 » After installation, Open the file /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf which is the config file for vsftpd ( I mean FTP server ) .

12     anonymous_enable=YES

15     local_enable=YES

18     write_enable=YES

81     ascii_upload_enable=YES

82      ascii_download_enable=YES

96      chroot_local_user=YE

Replace YES to NO in the below line.

anonymous_enable=NO

Find and Uncomment the below lines

local_enable=YES

write_enable=YES

and uncomment this line to limit the users to their home directories.

chroot_local_user=YES

Step 3 » Create a folder where you want to store FTP data. In my case i’m going to create in / ( root folder ) like below .

[root@leela ~]# mkdir /ftp

Step 4 » Now start creating users for accessing ftp server .

[root@leela ~]# useradd -d /ftp/krizna krizna

[root@leela ~]# passwd krizna

Changing password for user krizna.

New password:

You just created username krizna with home directory /ftp/krizna .

Step 5 » Start vsftpd service by issuing the below command.

[root@leela ~]# service vsftpd start

and type this below command to start ftp server service automatically while booting.

[root@leela ~]# chkconfig --levels 235 vsftpd on

Step 6 » That’s it, Now we can check the FTP access .Create some files in /ftp/krizna folder

[root@leela ~]# touch /ftp/krizna/test

[root@leela ~]# touch /ftp/krizna/test1

[root@leela ~]# touch /ftp/krizna/test2

Enable VSFTPD Log

Edit file = # vi /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

add below lines

xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log

xferlog_enable=YES

dirmessage_enable=YES

xferlog_std_format=YES

data_connection_timeout=600

dual_log_enable=YES

# service vsftpd restart

Save and restart vsftpd service.

Now open ftp path in remote machine browser ftp://ftp-server-IP ( ftp://172.16.28.135 ). You can see the created files after authentication.

You can use Filezilla or winscp tools to upload/download files from FTP server.

Troubleshooting :

If you not able to connect ftp server , Disable the firewall ( iptables ) and selinux service on your ftp server .

Disable firewall ( Iptables ) »

[root@leela ~]# service iptables stop

[root@leela ~]# chkconfig iptables off

Disable Selinux  » open the file /etc/selinux/config and find the line

SELINUX=enforcing

and replace with

SELINUX=disabled

now reboot the server and try again.

How to chnage default FTP directory for vsftpd

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Type the following in /etc/vsftpd.conf file:

anon_root=/some/directory/of/your/choice/

e.g.

anon_root=/var/frp/pub/

and set up propper permissions for that directory and its subdiretories.

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Howto configure VSFTPd allow root login

2. Allow root login

Remove root in /etc/vsftpd/ftpusers and /etc/vsftpd/user_list

[root@localhost ~]# vi /etc/vsftpd/ftpusers

# Users that are not allowed to login via ftpbin

# root

[root@localhost ~]#

[root@localhost ~]# vi /etc/vsftpd/user_list

# Note that the default vsftpd pam config also checks /etc/vsftpd/ftpusers

# root

[root@localhost ~]#

3. Restart VSFTPd and try to login by root

[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart

vsftpd: allow access only for certain users

# vi /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf 

In vsftpd.conf add:

userlist_enable=YES

userlist_file=/etc/vsftpd.userlist

userlist_deny=NO

Edit the file to contain a username per row.

# mkdir -p /etc/vsftpd.userlist

# vi /etc/vsftpd.userlist

Allow the user name

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-rw------- 1 root root  131 Sep  5 17:51 ftpusers

-rw------- 1 root root  367 Sep  5 18:04 user_list

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   10 Sep  6 13:43 vsftpd.userlist

Setting up VSFTPD to allow user to upload.

write_enable=YES

1) Disable anonymous FTP. Comment out the anonymous_enable line in the vsftpd.conf file like this:

# Allow anonymous FTP?

anonymous_enable=NO

# You may specify an explicit list of local users to chroot() to their home

# directory. If chroot_local_user is YES, then this list becomes a list of

# users to NOT chroot().

chroot_list_enable=YES

# (default follows)

chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd/chroot_list

# These directives turn on the User List (/etc/vsftpd/user_list), specify where the list is, and tell vsftp to deny anyone NOT found in the /etc/vsftpd/user_list file.

# The user must also have a local account.

userlist_enable=YES

userlist_file=/etc/vsftpd/user_list

userlist_deny=NO

pam_service_name=vsftpd

tcp_wrappers=YES