How To setup FTP Server on CentOS 8

File Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client/machine on a computer network.

Requirements :

Server Connected to the internet

Root access to the Server

Before to start updates your system with the current Command

#dnf update & dnf upgrade

Step 1:

Firstly we have to check the package vsftpd is installed in our machine, if not so then follow the steps to install it:

# dnf install -y vsftpd

Step 2:

To enable vsftpd in multi-user levels. en start

# systemctl enable vsftpd

#systemctl start vsftpd

Step 4:

Create FTP firewall rule to allow traffic on port 21

sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port=21/tcp

sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-service=ftp

sudo firewall-cmd –-reload

Step 5:

Now its time to tune your configuration

Now edit the /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf file.

Disable anonymous , enable local users . allow local user to write data

Allow users only to use their own directory (jail account / jail chroot) and allow them to write (optional)

chroot_local_user=YES

allow_writeable_chroot=YES

User list is a way to approve created FTP users before you can enable it with this way

userlist_enable=YES
userlist_file=/etc/vsftpd/user_list
userlist_deny=NO

Save the conf file , and reload FTP settings

systemctl restart vsftpd

Create FTP users:

sudo useradd ftpunixcop

sudo passwd ftpunixcop

Add user to the user_list file

sudo bash -c 'echo ftpunixcop >> /etc/vsftpd/user_list'

Tests .

Try to connect with user that doesn’t exit in user_list

Try to connect with user ftpunixcop included in the users list file

It works / please enjoy !!