The virtual machine I used was a centos 5 linux distribution, I then installed VSFTP
1. Install VSFTPD
[root@localhost]# yum install vsftpd
2. Make sure vsftpd starts on bootup
[root@localhost]# chkconfig vsftpd on
3. Switch of anonymous ftp access
[root@localhost]# vi /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
then change the line to
anonymous_enable=no
4. You can change the greeting you see when you connect to the ftp server by changing the line
tpd_banner= New Banner Here
5. Create a user group and shared directory. In this case, use /var/www/vhosts and a user group name of ftp-users for the remote users
[root@localhost]# groupadd ftp-users
[root@localhost]# mkdir /var/www/vhosts
6. Make the directory accessible to the ftp-users group.
[root@localhost]# chmod 775 /var/www/vhosts
[root@localhost]# chmod 775 /var/www
7. Add users, and make their default directory /var/www/vhosts
[root@localhost]# useradd -g ftp-users -d /var/www/vhosts user1
8. Change the permissions of the files in the /var/www/vhosts directory for read/write only access by the group
[root@localhost]# chown root:ftp-users /var/www/vhosts*
9. Restart the VSFTPD service using
[root@localhost]# service vsftpd restart
10. Make sure you are not blocking ftp ports to the server (ftp requires port 21 to be open)
system-config-securitylevel
11. After configuring the vsftpd server on an Amazon ec2 server , I was not able to connect to vsftpd in one server from my ftp client. It throws the error:
500 OOPS: vsf_sysutil_recv_peek
The solution for this problem is to load capability module:
# modprobe capability
12. If you are having trouble connecting with an FTP client (such as FileZilla) and receiving an error like below
Error: Could not read from socket: ECONNRESET – Connection reset by peer
Error: Disconnected from server
Error: Failed to retrieve directory listing
Then make sure you change the connection settings in the client to ‘active’ rather than ‘default’