ProFTPD on Ubuntu: Setting Up FTP
What I Set Up I needed a simple FTP server on Ubuntu for file transfers. ProFTPD did the job. This is my setup — on Arch you’d install with sudo pacman -S proftpd and edit the same config path. Plain FTP is not encrypted. For anything serious, use SFTP over SSH instead. Installing ProFTPD Getting ProFTPD set up is pretty simple. Just run: sudo apt-get install proftpd Configuring ProFTPD Once it’s installed, you’ll need to tweak the config file. Open it up with: ...