Proftpd: Installation Instruction

Installing Proftpd: File Transfer Server:


Download latest package form this link:
http://proftpd.github.com/

wget https://github.com/downloads/proftpd/proftpd.github.com/proftpd-1.3.4b.tar.gz

tar -zxvf proftpd-1.3.4b.tar.gz
cd proftpd-1.3.4b
./configuure
make
make install

cp /usr/src/proftpd-1.2.0pre10/sample-configurations/basic.conf /etc/proftpd.conf

Edit proftpd.conf file

ServerName                      "ProFTPD Default Installation"


# Port 21 is the standard FTP port.
Port                            21
# Limit the maximum number of anonymous logins
MaxClients                    10




If you want everyone to be able to access the FTP server.ftpd: ALL






If you want to allow people from .somehost.com to access the FTP server.

ftpd: .somehost.com


If you want to allow 199.14.55.4 to access the FTP server.

ftpd: 199.14.55.4

# Set the user and group under which the server will run.
User                            username
Group                           group_name



Add user and group:

Create new user:
  useradd -G group_name username


Change Password:

  passwd username
 < Enter new password>


Verify it:
   id username


Add existing user:

 usermod -a -G ftp tony




Once that is all done, you can start ProFTPd by running:
   /usr/local/sbin/proftpd -c /etc/proftpd.conf



To Verify:

   ps -A | grep "proftpd"

To stop server:
  pkill proftpd