https://ayyzenn.github.io/tags/ftp/Recent content in Ftp on ayyzennHugo -- 0.163.3en-usSun, 07 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://ayyzenn.github.io/posts/proftpd/Sun, 07 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://ayyzenn.github.io/posts/proftpd/<h2 id="what-i-set-up">What I Set Up</h2> <p>I needed a simple FTP server on Ubuntu for file transfers. <strong>ProFTPD</strong> did the job. This is my setup — on Arch you&rsquo;d install with <code>sudo pacman -S proftpd</code> and edit the same config path.</p> <p>Plain FTP is <strong>not encrypted</strong>. For anything serious, use SFTP over SSH instead.</p> <h2 id="installing-proftpd">Installing ProFTPD</h2> <p>Getting ProFTPD set up is pretty simple. Just run:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>sudo apt-get install proftpd </span></span></code></pre></div><h2 id="configuring-proftpd">Configuring ProFTPD</h2> <p>Once it&rsquo;s installed, you&rsquo;ll need to tweak the config file. Open it up with:</p>