This article will describe installing vsftp for FTP server.
Table of Contents
1 Install vsftpd
Install vsftpd package.
$ sudo apt install -y vsftpd
Enable upload by local user. Enable read by anonymous user. Disable upload by anonymous user.
$ cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/vsftpd.conf listen=YES local_enable=YES xferlog_enable=YES connect_from_port_20=YES pam_service_name=vsftpd # Enable upload by local user. write_enable=YES # Enable read by anonymous user (without username and password). secure_chroot_dir=/var/run/vsftpd/empty anonymous_enable=YES anon_root=/srv/ftp allow_anon_ssl=YES no_anon_password=YES EOF
Create directory for anon_chroot.
$ sudo mkdir /srv/ftp $ sudo chown nobody:nogroup /srv/ftp $ echo "anon" | sudo tee /srv/ftp/anon.txt
Enable and restart vsftpd.
$ sudo systemctl enable vsftpd $ sudo systemctl restart vsftpd
2 Access to vsftpd
Access to vsftpd with lftp.
$ sudo apt install -y lftp
Access to vsftpd with specifying user. You can specify password with -u <username>,<password>. Home directory is displayed. You can access directory and files of FTP server with using user permission.
$ lftp -u hiroom2 ftp-server.hiroom2.com Password: lftp hiroom2@ftp-server.hiroom2.com:~> pwd ftp://hiroom2@ftp-server.hiroom2.com/%2Fhome/hiroom2 lftp hiroom2@ftp-server.hiroom2.com:~> ls / drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Jul 29 07:12 bin drwxr-xr-x 4 0 0 1024 Aug 05 12:16 boot drwxrwxr-x 2 0 0 4096 Oct 09 2016 cdrom -rw------- 1 0 0 17711104 Jan 21 2017 core drwxr-xr-x 21 0 0 4020 Aug 06 01:22 dev drwxr-xr-x 133 0 0 12288 Aug 06 01:22 etc drwxr-xr-x 4 0 0 4096 Aug 06 01:22 home <snip>
Not specifying user uses anonymous user. The directory which is set to anon_root is displayed. Anonymous user cannot access upper directory because vsftpd uses chroot.
$ lftp ftp-server.hiroom2.com lftp ftp-server.hiroom2.com:~> pwd ftp://ftp-server.hiroom2.com lftp ftp-server.hiroom2.com:~> ls / -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 5 Aug 06 01:22 anon.txt