If you want to setup a highly secure, efficient and fast anonymous ftp server then you might want to consider VsFtpd. It is probably the most secure and fastest FTP server for UNIX-like systems.
Is vsftpd the right server for me? If your main requirement from an FTP server is one of the following then yes, vsftpd is probably the FTP server you are looking for.
- Security
- Performance
- Stability
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 configuration
- Bandwidth throttling
- Per-source-IP configuration
- Per-source-IP limits
- IPv6
- Encryption support through SSL integration
The only reason you might prefer a different FTP server to vsftpd is if you really need the configurability of one of the more bloated FTP servers. In this regard, vsftpd is a small modular component in the proper spirit of UNIX. Consider moving to vsftpd even if it means sacrificing some obscure feature of your current FTP server. The security, performance and stability gains are worth it. VsFtpd
In this exercise we are going to setup a stand alone ftp daemon listening on port 21. It will only allow anonymous read only access to the /ftp tree. The clients are going to be limited to the amount of total connects made, the amount of connects per client and the number of clients per ip address. The server is going to run with minimal privileges of the user “nobody” and full logging will be enabled. Finally, we are going to limit clients to specific connection timeouts and limit the commands we will accept from all ftp clients.
Installing the package or building the binaries?
Generating a RSA key for ssl connections
Monitor clients connected to vsftpd
Can a client continue a incomplete download without starting over?
Do I have to give ftp users a valid shell ?
Anonymous login works, but users are denied. Whats wrong ?
Some browsers are having problems using the ftp server
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