Install vsftpd on CentOS

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∟Install vsftpd on CentOS

This section provides a tutorial example on how to install, enable and start vsftpd (Very Secure FTP Daemon) on CentOS systems.

If you want to set up an FTP server on your CentOS system, you should consider installing and running vsftpd (Very Secure FTP Daemon). Main features of vsftpd are:

Virtual IP configurations
Virtual users
Standalone or inetd operation
Powerful per-user configurability
Bandwidth throttling
Per-source-IP configurability
Per-source-IP limits
IPv6
Encryption support through SSL integration

Here is what I did to install vsftpd on my CentOS 8 computer.

1. Install vsftpd compiler:

herong$ dnf info vsftpd
Available Packages
Name         : vsftpd
Version      : 3.0.3
Release      : 28.el8
Architecture : x86_64
Size         : 180 k
Source       : vsftpd-3.0.3-28.el8.src.rpm
Repository   : AppStream
Summary      : Very Secure Ftp Daemon
URL          : https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html
License      : GPLv2 with exceptions
Description  : vsftpd is a Very Secure FTP daemon. It was written
             : completely from scratch.

herong$ sudo dnf install vsftpd
...
Downloading Packages:
vsftpd-3.0.3-28.el8.x86_64.rpm   2.5 MB/s | 180 kB     00:00
...
Installed:
vsftpd-3.0.3-28.el8.x86_64

Complete!

2. Enable vsftpd so that will be started automatically at system boot time:

herong$ sudo systemctl enable vsftpd
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vsftpd.service \
  -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/vsftpd.service.

3. Start vsftpd and check its status:

herong$ sudo systemctl start vsftpd

herong$ sudo systemctl status vsftpd
  vsftpd.service - Vsftpd ftp daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/vsftpd.service; enabled; ...
   Active: active (running)
  Process: 26802 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
 Main PID: 26803 (vsftpd)
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 23087)
   Memory: 540.0K
   CGroup: /system.slice/vsftpd.service
           | 26803 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

Jun 23 16:59:40  systemd[1]: Starting Vsftpd ftp daemon...
Jun 23 16:59:40  systemd[1]: Started Vsftpd ftp daemon.