To setup Virtual FTP server using pure-ftpd in CentOS is as below :
1. Download the packages.
Assuming you already had rpmforge repo enable in your yum.conf.d
yum install pure-ftpd pure-ftpd-selinux -y |
2. Add the a valid user to behave / mapped as the virtual user.
need only one.
#useradd ftpuser -d /opt/ftp_users |
2. then edit the config file /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf
to reflect the differences as below :
[root@nb-namran pure-ftpd]# diff pure-ftpd.conf.original /home/namran/ftp/pure-ftpd.conf
34c34
< BrokenClientsCompatibility no
---
> BrokenClientsCompatibility yes
40c40
< MaxClientsNumber 50
---
> MaxClientsNumber 200
52c52
< MaxClientsPerIP 8
---
> MaxClientsPerIP 24
77c77
< NoAnonymous no
---
> NoAnonymous yes
126c126
< # PureDB /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb
---
> PureDB /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb
137c137
< PAMAuthentication yes
---
> # PAMAuthentication yes
436c436
< # IPV4Only yes
---
> IPV4Only yes
3. then make sure to add user with something as following sequence :
mkdir /opt/ftp_users/usernamehere chown ftpuser:ftpuser /opt/ftp_users/usernamehere pure-pw useradd usernamehere -u ftpuser -g ftpuser -d /opt/ftp_users/usernamehere/ pure-pw mkdb pure-pw list |
4. Test by trying to login as newly added user.
then try to put / make directory to make sure everything is fine.
That’s all.