Install Pure-FTPd on CentOS with Virtual Users

To install Pure-FTPd on CentOS, run

yum install -y pure-ftpd

Edit configuration file

vi /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf

To disable anonymous FTP, find

NoAnonymous                  no

Replace with

NoAnonymous                  yes

To enable Virtual Users, find

# PureDB                        /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb

Uncomment the line.

PureDB                        /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb

To Allow Apache user to login via FTP, find

MinUID                      1000

Replace with

MinUID                      47

I set MinUID value to 47, as apache user have UID/GID of 48. By setting MinUID below that apache user should be able to login.

Set pureftpd to start on Boot

systemctl enable pure-ftpd

Restart pure-ftpd

systemctl start pure-ftpd

Create a Virual User

To create a virtual user, run

pure-pw useradd  USER_NAME_HERE -u apache -g apache -d /var/www/html/

It will ask you to enter password two times.

Now run

pure-pw mkdb
systemctl restart pure-ftpd

pure-pw passwd USER_NAME_HERE

It will ask you to enter new password.

Rebuild password database and restart pure-ftpd with

pure-pw mkdb
systemctl restart pure-ftpd

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