How to Install ProFTPD on CentOS 6

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; line-height: 3.4rem; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><u>Install ProFTPD on CentOS 6</u></span></h1> <div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <b style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">ProFTPD </b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">(short for Pro FTP daemon) is an </span><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/ftp" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">FTP server</a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">. ProFTPD is Free and open-source software, compatible with Unix-like systems and Microsoft Windows (via Cygwin). Along with </span><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/vsftp" style="color: #999999; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; text-decoration: none;">vsftpd</a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> and Pure-FTPd, ProFTPD is among the most popular FTP servers in </span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: center;"> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr45fLBm5B3qr3E_CEJ5KuZUrSdFkVs80KSv10Df6qJ6nUOVi87vnMY5LJDD7YL9QuqqK26UAfgpgxrqSMKsHMQ-kx54qElbc6d-6Iwn75dk9isdDXrxkmkjMepG2ZgBtZ80wDXGTqTLCY/s1600/proftpd-www.hackthesec.co.in.png" style="border: 1px solid rgb(192, 192, 192); height: auto; max-width: 95%; padding: 4px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span style="color: #222222; line-height: 19.2px;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Unix-like environments today. Compared to those, which focus e.g. on simplicity, speed or security, ProFTPD's primary design goal is to be a highly feature rich FTP server, exposing a large amount of configuration options to the user</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">.</span></div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 19.2px;"> <strong style="line-height: 19.2px;"><a class="titlex" href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/03/how-to-install-proftpd-on-centos-7.html" style="display: block; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; max-height: 36px; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"></a><ul style="text-align: left;"><a class="titlex" href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/03/how-to-install-proftpd-on-centos-7.html" style="display: block; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; max-height: 36px; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"></a> <li><a class="titlex" href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/03/how-to-install-proftpd-on-centos-7.html" style="display: block; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; max-height: 36px; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><strong style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 19.2px;"></strong></a><strong style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 19.2px;"><a class="titlex" href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/03/how-to-install-proftpd-on-centos-7.html" style="display: inline !important; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; max-height: 36px; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: red;">How to Install ProFTPD on CentOS 7</span></a></strong></li> </ul> </strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white;"> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 26px;"> <b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Step 1: Add the EPEL Repository</span></u></b></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> ProFTPD is part of Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (<a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/EPEL_Repo" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">EPEL</a>), which is a community repository of non-standard packages for the <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/EPEL" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">RHEL</a> distribution. First, we’ll install the EPEL repository:</div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.6px;">rpm -iUvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm</span></span></pre> </div> </div> <div style="background-color: white;"> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 26px;"> <div> <b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Step 2: Install ProFTPD</span></u></b></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px;"> As a matter of best practice we’ll update our packages:</div> </div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">yum -y update</span></span></pre> </div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Then let’s install ProFTPD and any required packages:</span></span></div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">yum -y install proftpd</span></span></pre> </div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <div> <span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Step 3: Configure ProFTPD</u></b></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Let’s edit the configuration file for ProFTPD:</span></span></div> </div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">vi /etc/proftpd.conf</span></span></pre> </div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <div> <div style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> Change the <b>ServerName to the hostname of your server</b>. In the case below, ftp.hackthesec.co.in is an example:</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <br /></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <b>ServerName </b>"ftp.hackthesec.co.in"</div> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Exit and save the file with the command :wq .</span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Restart the ProFTPD service:</u></b></span></span></div> </div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">service proftpd restart</span></span></pre> </div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Then set the ProFTPD service to start at boot:</span></span></div> </div> <div style="background-color: white;"> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">chkconfig proftpd on</span></span></pre> </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">www.hackthesec.co.in</a> <a href="http://facebook.com/htsecu" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">HackTheSec Facebook</a> <a href="https://www.twitter.com/Hackthesecurity" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">HackTheSec Twitter</a> <a href="http://feeds.hackthesec.co.in/hackthesec" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">HackTheSec Feed</a></span></span></pre> </div> </div>

How to Install ProFTPD on CentOS 6

Install ProFTPD on CentOS 6 ProFTPD  (short for Pro FTP daemon) is an  FTP server . ProFTPD is Free and open-source software, compatibl...

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How to Install ProFTPD on CentOS 7

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; line-height: 3.4rem; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><u>Install ProFTPD on CentOS 7</u></span></h1> <div> <b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">ProFTPD </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">(short for Pro FTP daemon) is an </span><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/ftp">FTP server</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">. ProFTPD is Free and open-source software, compatible with Unix-like systems and Microsoft Windows (via Cygwin). Along with </span><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/vsftp" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; text-decoration: none;">vsftpd</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> and Pure-FTPd, ProFTPD is among the most popular FTP servers in </span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr45fLBm5B3qr3E_CEJ5KuZUrSdFkVs80KSv10Df6qJ6nUOVi87vnMY5LJDD7YL9QuqqK26UAfgpgxrqSMKsHMQ-kx54qElbc6d-6Iwn75dk9isdDXrxkmkjMepG2ZgBtZ80wDXGTqTLCY/s1600/proftpd-www.hackthesec.co.in.png" /></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Unix-like environments today. Compared to those, which focus e.g. on simplicity, speed or security, ProFTPD's primary design goal is to be a highly feature rich FTP server, exposing a large amount of configuration options to the user</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">.</span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Step 1: Add the EPEL Repository</span></u></b></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> ProFTPD is part of Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (<a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/EPEL">EPEL</a>), which is a community repository of non-standard packages for the <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/EPEL">RHEL</a> distribution. First, we’ll install the EPEL repository:</div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.6px;">rpm -iUvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm</span></span></pre> </div> <div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <div> <b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Step 2: Install ProFTPD</span></u></b></div> <div style="color: #222222;"> As a matter of best practice we’ll update our packages:</div> </div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">yum -y update</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Then let’s install ProFTPD and any required packages:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">yum -y install proftpd</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <div> <span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Step 3: Configure ProFTPD</u></b></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Let’s edit the configuration file for ProFTPD:</span></span></div> </div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">vi /etc/proftpd.conf</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> Change the <b>ServerName to the hostname of your server</b>. In the case below, ftp.hackthesec.co.in is an example:</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <br /></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <b>ServerName </b>"ftp.hackthesec.co.in"</div> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Exit and save the file with the command :wq .</span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Restart the ProFTPD service:</u></b></span></span></div> </div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">systemctl restart proftpd</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Then set the ProFTPD service to start at boot:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">systemctl enable proftpd</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">And verify your work by checking the status of ProFTPD:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">systemctl status proftpd</span></span></pre> </div> <div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <div> <b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Step 4: Allow ProFTPD Through the Firewall</span></u></b></div> <div style="color: #222222;"> Allow the default FTP port,<b> port 21</b>, through <b>firewalld</b>:</div> </div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; 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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; line-height: 3.4rem; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;"><u>Install and Configure ProFTPD on Ubuntu</u></span></h1> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b>ProFTPD </b>(short for Pro FTP daemon) is an <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/ftp">FTP server</a>. ProFTPD is Free and open-source software, compatible with Unix-like systems and Microsoft Windows (via Cygwin). Along with <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/vsftp">vsftpd</a> and Pure-FTPd, ProFTPD is among the most popular FTP servers in </span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr45fLBm5B3qr3E_CEJ5KuZUrSdFkVs80KSv10Df6qJ6nUOVi87vnMY5LJDD7YL9QuqqK26UAfgpgxrqSMKsHMQ-kx54qElbc6d-6Iwn75dk9isdDXrxkmkjMepG2ZgBtZ80wDXGTqTLCY/s1600/proftpd-www.hackthesec.co.in.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr45fLBm5B3qr3E_CEJ5KuZUrSdFkVs80KSv10Df6qJ6nUOVi87vnMY5LJDD7YL9QuqqK26UAfgpgxrqSMKsHMQ-kx54qElbc6d-6Iwn75dk9isdDXrxkmkjMepG2ZgBtZ80wDXGTqTLCY/s1600/proftpd-www.hackthesec.co.in.png" /></a></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Unix-like environments today. Compared to those, which focus e.g. on simplicity, speed or security, ProFTPD's primary design goal is to be a highly feature rich FTP server, exposing a large amount of configuration options to the user</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">.</span></div> <div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/03/how-to-install-and-configure-vsftpd-on-ubuntu.html"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">How to Install and Configure vsftpd on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><b><u>Step 1: Install ProFTPD</u></b></span></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">First, you’ll follow a simple best practice: ensuring the list of available packages is up to date before installing anything new.</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 19.2px;"><span style="color: white; line-height: 15.6px;">[root@hackthesec]# </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: white;">apt-get update</span></span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Then let’s install ProFTPD and any required packages:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 19.2px;"><span style="line-height: 19.2px;"><span style="color: white; line-height: 15.6px;">[root@hackthesec]# </span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">apt-get -y </span><span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">install proftpd</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">During the install process you’ll be prompted with the following screen:</span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcM4GPIrQXuo9QB2VS1_lI3hhAhvdOEZVjeoDbVtFW1aJ-b9UrbHSUtULF0Ldq0_FK-Y5izI6FPDVJth0JD1OWiaS-ZgEeWCTCI3rh0tmNx3jYCTVxvhPO3CewRuyftmXfQh0cOHCHoGFb/s1600/How-to-Install-ProFTPD-on-Ubuntu-12.04-LTS-www.hackthesec.co.in.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcM4GPIrQXuo9QB2VS1_lI3hhAhvdOEZVjeoDbVtFW1aJ-b9UrbHSUtULF0Ldq0_FK-Y5izI6FPDVJth0JD1OWiaS-ZgEeWCTCI3rh0tmNx3jYCTVxvhPO3CewRuyftmXfQh0cOHCHoGFb/s1600/How-to-Install-ProFTPD-on-Ubuntu-12.04-LTS-www.hackthesec.co.in.png" /></a></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Select standalone and then Ok to finish the installation.</span></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><b><u>Step 2: Configure ProFTPD</u></b></span></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Let’s edit the configuration file for ProFTPD:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 19.2px;"><span style="line-height: 19.2px;"><span style="color: white; line-height: 15.6px;">[root@hackthesec]# </span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">vi /etc/proftpd/</span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">proftpd.conf</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="background-color: white;"><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> Change the <b>ServerName to the hostname of your server</b>. 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