Configure vsftpd server

vsftpd, which stands for "Very Secure FTP Daemon", is an FTP server for Unix-like systems, including Linux.

• The following packages are required  for vsftpd.
• check and install if necessary from CD or from or freshen to this latest version.
• Activate the vsftpd service.

• The vsftpd package provides /var/ftp for downloads of files by the anonymous FTP user. It does not set up an upload directory. Configure vsftpd permit uploads by anonymous users. Prepare a directory for incoming files in this way.

#  cd /var/ftp      
#  mkdir data     
# chown root.ftp data      
# chmod 730 data
Now verify the permissions on the new directory.    
 ls -ld /var/ftp/incoming

• Set the following lines in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf;

anon_upload_enable=YES         
chown_uploads=YES          
chown_username=daemon       
anon_umask=077  

In addition, anonymous_enable=YES should be a set already by default. Restart the vsftpd service.

• The result of these changes should be that the anonymous FTP user is able to upload files to /var/ftp/data,but cannot download files from that directory or list files in it. This is to stop 'wareza' traders from using our upload directory as a 'drop box' for stolen software or data. Upload a file as the anonymous FTP user. It should end up in /var/ftp/data, owned by user daemon and group ftp, with permissions 700 (read-write by user daemon only).