{"id":1084,"date":"2014-12-15T13:43:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T13:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2021-02-17T10:19:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T10:19:05","slug":"how-to-install-ftp-and-setup-user-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/how-to-install-ftp-and-setup-user-account\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install FTP and setup user account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It\u2019s very simple to set up FTP service on the server, please do as instructed below to set up FTP service and set up a customer to use FTP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Before setting up FTP you need to validate that it is not already set up on your server. For centos os use the command to check whether it is installed or not,<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">\/etc\/init.d\/vsftpd status<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>If it is installed then it will display like <strong>vsftpd<\/strong> is stopped or operating. If not adhere to the actions below to set up and configure FTP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You can easily set up <strong>vsftpd<\/strong> on your server from command line, use the following command to set up the FTP service.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">yum install vsftpd<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>After that you\u00a0also have to install the FTP client, so that you can connect to an FTP server, for that use the below command<\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">yum install ftp<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><strong>Configure VSFTP:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The configuration file of <strong>vsftpd<\/strong> is \u00a0<strong>\/etc\/vsftpd\/vsftpd.conf<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You need to modify the configuration file and turn off unknown access. For that change the Anonymous_enable to No.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">anonymous_enable=NO<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>After that, uncomment the local_enable option and changing it to yes:<\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">local_enable=YES<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>Finish up by uncommenting command to:<\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">chroot_local_user=YES<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>After that restart the <strong>vsftpd<\/strong> service<\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">service vsftpd restart<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>Then run the following command to make sure\u00a0that <strong>vsftpd<\/strong> runs at boot:<\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">chkconfig vsftpd on<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>[wpfmb type=&#8217;info&#8217; theme=2]<span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you want to FTP via SSH you can check my post on<\/span> <a title=\"How to FTP from command line\" href=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/how-to-ftp-from-command-line\/\">how to FTP from command line<\/a>[\/wpfmb]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><strong>Create FTP user:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Now your FTP server is up and operating. It is time to add additional customers to FTP server so that they can sign in into account to upload \/ download files. To add a user and set the password, use the command below:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \"># adduser -c 'FTP USER cpanelplesk' -m cpanelplesk\r\n#passwd cpanelplesk<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now the user account is created and you can access the ftp account using the created username and password.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s very simple to set up FTP service on the server, please do as instructed below to set up FTP service and set up a customer to use FTP. Before setting up FTP you need to validate that it is not already set up on your server. 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