I'm struggling in creating an FTP user on a Linux server using the command line.

• I installed vsftpd
• Then i created a user using multiple commands for multiple times like

sudo adduser --home /home/testuser testuser --no-create-home

• Added password to it,
• Edited etc/vsftpd.conf file,
• enabled chroot_local_user=YES,
• Added user name to config files, etc etc. But none seems to work.
• They are getting created as SFTP users. I disabled the SSH access and then it stopped for FTP too.
• What all I need is to do is simply set up an FTP user and jail them to a path without SSH access. Can anyone help? I had gone through a lot of posts. But still no solution.

CodePudding user response：

There are lot more FTP serves like vsftpd, ProFTP, and PureFTP. But with vsftpd there are known issues. That's right. You can use ProFTP and I followed the same method using ProFTP. It worked.

CodePudding user response：

Instead of trying vsftpd, I used ProFTP and it worked. I followed the below steps and it worked.

ProFTP Setup in Linux:

• Document Link https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-proftpd-on-ubuntu-12-04

sudo apt-get install proftpd (to install)
sudo apt-get remove proftpd (to uninstall)

• Edit the ProFTP configuration file located at /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf to update specific settings

sudo vi /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf

• Make sure the ServerName and MasqueradeAddress are set to the current machine’s Public or Elastic IP Address.
• Set RequireValidShell to false. Set DefaultRoot to ~ to jail users to their home directories only.

ServerName                      "54.187.75.250"
ServerType                      standalone
MasqueradeAddress         54.187.75.250
RequireValidShell               off
DefaultRoot                     ~
PassivePorts                  50000 51000
<IfModule mod_facts.c>
    FactsAdvertise off
</IfModule>

Creating an ftp user

• Add a ftp user to the system

sudo useradd -m ftpuser (the -m option is to create a home directory for the user)

• Set user’s password

sudo passwd ftpuser

• At a later time, you may delete the user by executing

sudo deluser ftpuser

• Test if FTP server is up and running from a remote machine, login using the id/pwd of the newly created ftpuser Transfer files back and forth.

• Restart FTP server

sudo service proftpd restart
sudo /etc/init.d/proftpd start