Hello Linux users, welcome to Fedora Tutorial post. Today, we are going to show you how to build a free FTP Server on Fedora. We are using Fedora 27 as a base but you are free to use any other Fedora releases such as Fedora 25 and Fedora 26. There are various FTP Server software available for Linux but today we are going to use the free one. VSFTPD is the special package that will turn Fedora Server into a free FTP Server for your network.
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Steps to Build a Free FTP Server on Fedora Server
Step 1. Install VSFTPD
vsftpd is a secure, fast FTP Server for Linux system. If you want to learn more about this package, please visit this official page. To install vsftpd on Fedora Server, use the following command
sudo dnf install vsftpd
At this point vsftpd is installed. We need to configure some things.
Step 2. Configure VSFTPD
Disable the anonymous access. Find the following line and change it to NO if you don’t want anonymous access to the FTP Server.
anonymous_enable=NO
ASCII Upload and Download support. Find and uncomment these lines to enable ASCII support
ascii_upload_enable=YES
ascii_download_enable=YES
Now configure the firewalld to allow FTP Server connections
firewall-cmd –add-service=ftp –permanent
firewall-cmd –reload
If SE Linux is enabled, you must execute this command as well to allow the ftp server
setsebool -P ftpd_full_access on
Step 3. Start vsftpd
Now we can start the vsftpd service
sudo systemctl start vsftpd
sudo systemctl enable vsftpd
Step 4. Test the connection
Now use another computer to connect to our Fedora FTP Server. You can use any FTP client such as Filezilla FTP Client.
Type the IP address of the FTP Server, username and password. You should be able to connect to the FTP Server without problems.
Thanks for reading this how to build a free ftp server on Fedora Server. See you on the next tutorial.
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