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FTP Server Setup Guide

The document provides instructions for installing and configuring the vsftpd FTP server on CentOS. It describes how to install vsftpd using yum, edit the vsftpd.conf file to disable anonymous access and enable ASCII mode, start and enable the vsftpd service, open firewall ports and SELinux rules for FTP, create an FTP user called "sk", and test connectivity to the FTP server using the newly created credentials.

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FTP Server Setup Guide

The document provides instructions for installing and configuring the vsftpd FTP server on CentOS. It describes how to install vsftpd using yum, edit the vsftpd.conf file to disable anonymous access and enable ASCII mode, start and enable the vsftpd service, open firewall ports and SELinux rules for FTP, create an FTP user called "sk", and test connectivity to the FTP server using the newly created credentials.

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Install vsftpd

All commands should be run with ‘root’ user. Run the following command in terminal
to install vsftpd package:

yum install vsftpd ftp -y

Configure vsftpd
Edit vsftpd configuration file /etc/vsftpd/[Link],

vi /etc/vsftpd/[Link]

Find the following lines and make the changes as shown below:

[...]
## Disable anonymous login ##
anonymous_enable=NO

## Uncomment ##
ascii_upload_enable=YES
ascii_download_enable=YES

## Uncomment - Enter your Welcome message - This is optional ##


ftpd_banner=Welcome to UNIXMEN FTP service.

## Add at the end of this  file ##


use_localtime=YES

Enable and start the vsftpd service:

systemctl enable vsftpd


systemctl start vsftpd

Firewall And SELinux Configuration


Allow the ftp service and port 21 via firewall.

firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=21/tcp


firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=ftp

Restart firewall:

firewall-cmd --reload

Then, update the SELinux boolean values for FTP service:

setsebool -P ftp_home_dir on

Create FTP users


By default, root user is not allowed to login to ftp server for security purpose. So, let us
create a normal testing user called “sk” with password “centos”.

useradd sk
passwd sk

Connecting to FTP server


Now, try to connect to FTP server itself with user “sk”:

ftp [Link]

Enter the ftp user name and password.

Sample Output:

Connected to [Link] ([Link]).


220 Welcome to UNIXMEN FTP service.
Name ([Link]:root): sk
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp>

Congratulations!! you will be able to login to FTP server without any problems.

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