vsftpd (Very Secure File Transport Protocol Daemon) is a secure, fast FTP server for Unix/Linux systems. In this how-to article, let us see how to setup a basic FTP server on CentOS 7. However, this procedure might work well on RHEL CentOS, Scientific Linux 7 version too.
My testbox server hostname and IP Address are server.dinisoft.local and 192.168.1.101/24 respectively. Change these values to match your scenario.
Install vsftpd
All commands should be run with ‘root’ user. Run the following command in terminal to install vsftpd package:
yum install vsftpd ftp -y
Configure vsftpd
Edit vsftpd configuration file /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf,
vi /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
Find the following lines and make the changes as shown below:
[...] ## Disable anonymous login ## anonymous_enable=NO ## Uncomment ## ascii_upload_enable=YES ascii_download_enable=YES ## Uncomment - Enter your Welcome message - This is optional ## ftpd_banner=Welcome to UNIXMEN FTP service. ## Add at the end of this file ## use_localtime=YES
Enable and start the vsftpd service:
systemctl enable vsftpd systemctl start vsftpd
Firewall And SELinux Configuration
Allow the ftp service and port 21 via firewall.
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=21/tcp firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=ftp
Restart firewall:
firewall-cmd --reload
Then, update the SELinux boolean values for FTP service:
setsebool -P ftp_home_dir on
Create FTP users
By default, root user is not allowed to login to ftp server for security purpose. So, let us create a normal testing user called “sk” with password “centos”.
useradd sk passwd sk
Connecting to FTP server
Now, try to connect to FTP server itself with user “sk”:
ftp 192.168.1.101
Enter the ftp user name and password.
