ftp
The idea of this blog post is to show how to install and configure a secure FTP access to your server and provide support for your users.
I'm configuring it so all you users can have their /home/{username} directory available as their FTP folder(s) which I think is one of the most secure ways of configuring an FTP service. After following this tutorial you can create a "ftp" user in your system without ssh access (you can google that ;) ) and use it as you generic ftp user. First of all we need to download the FTP server, in this case I'm going to be using VSFTPD, in order to download it, we need to add the ppa to our system by issuing the following commands:
# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thefrontiergroup/vsftpd sudo apt-get update
and then install the package:
# sudo apt-get install vsftpd
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