Install Vsftpd on Ubuntu 16
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How To Install Vsftpd on Ubuntu 16.04

FTP stands for “file transfer protocol”, and it allows you to transfer files to a remote computer. The most common FTP server software for Ubuntu is the vsftpd package, which stands for “very secure FTP daemon.” It’s the default FTP package for Ubuntu, and most other Linux distributions as well.

Features:

Despite being small for purposes of speed and security, many more complicated FTP setups are achievable with vsftpd! By no means an exclusive list, vsftpd will handle:

  • Virtual IP configurations
  • Virtual users
  • Standalone or inetd operation
  • Powerful per-user configurability
  • Bandwidth throttling
  • Per-source-IP configurability
  • Per-source-IP limits
  • IPv6
  • Encryption support through SSL integration
  • etc…

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation OpenLiteSpeed on a Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) server.

Install Vsftpd on Ubuntu 16.04

Step 1. First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running these following apt-get commands in the terminal.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Step 2. Installing VSFTPD.

To install VSFTPD, run the following command from your Terminal:

apt-get install vsftpd

Step 3. Configure VSFTPD.

After it is successfully installed, Let us go ahead and configure:

### nano /etc/vsftpd.conf

Controls whether anonymous logins are permitted or not.
anonymous_enable=NO

# Allow local users to login
local_enable=YES

# Set 'write_enable' to YES in order to allow changes to the filesystem
write_enable=YES

# to enable ASCII uploads (to prevent uploaded scripts etc. from breaking),
# without the DoS risk of SIZE and ASCII downloads. ASCII mangling should be
# on the client anyway..
ascii_upload_enable=YES
ascii_download_enable=YES

# You can set the root directory of the FTP users. if not specified, users' home directory equals FTP home directory
local_root=public_html

Save and close the file. Restart vsftpd service to take effect the changes:

sudo systemctl restart vsftpd
sudo systemctl enable vsftpd

Check if vsftpd service is running or not using command:

sudo systemctl status vsftpd

Sample output:

vsftpd.service - vsftpd FTP server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/vsftpd.service; enabled; vend
Active: active (running) since Thu 2016-08-16 17:28:31 IST; 31s a
Process: 2040 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/vsftpd/empty (co
Main PID: 2043 (vsftpd)
Tasks: 1
Memory: 492.0K
CPU: 46ms
CGroup: /system.slice/vsftpd.service
└─2043 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd.conf

Aug 16 17:28:31 ubuntuserver systemd[1]: Starting vsftpd FTP server.
Aug 16 17:28:31 ubuntuserver systemd[1]: Started vsftpd FTP server.

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed vsftpd. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing vsftpd in Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official vsftpd web site.

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