Tag: pureftpd

Install Pure-FTPd from source
To instal pureftpd from source, go to

http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/releases/

find latest version download link.

Download and Install

At the time of this post, latest version is 1.0.49, always use latest version when you are installing.
```
cd /usr/local/src
wget https://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/releases/pure-ftpd-1.0.49.tar.gz
tar -zxvf pure-ftpd-1.0.49.tar.gz
cd pure-ftpd-1.0.*
./configure --with-puredb
make
make check
make install
```
The software is now installed in /usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd

To start the server, just run the following command
```
/usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd
```
Common Errors during install

If you get error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH, install gcc with
```
yum install gcc -y
```
Firewall

FTP need following ports open in firewall.
```
TCP 21
TCP 30000-50000
```
Enable MySQL support

If you need to enable MySQL support in pure-ftpd, then run configure command with following option.
```
./configure --with-mysql --with-uploadscript --with-extauth
```
Configuration Files

During installation, configuration file get copied to
```
/etc/pure-ftpd.conf
```
You can edit it as required.

To start pure-ftpd with configuration file, run
```
/usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd /etc/pure-ftpd.conf
```
To enable system users login, set UnixAuthentication to yes.
```
UnixAuthentication            yes
MinUID                      100
```
MinUID specify lowest id of users that is allowed to login to user. You can uncomment it if you need user root or any other system users to login. But this maybe insecure as FTP comminication is done with out encryption.

NAT

If you are behind NAT, you need to uncomment following settings. This is required for most cloud providers like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure. To see if you have NAT, see if your Public IP is configured inside your server. You can list IP configured in your server with command ip a
```
PassivePortRange             30000 50000
ForcePassiveIP               192.168.0.1
```
Replace 192.168.0.1 with your public IP. If you are using Amazon AWS, then it will be your Elastic IP address. If you don’t use Elastic IP, then it is your public IP.

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July 8, 2020
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
```
Change Password of an existing Virual User
```
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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Pure-FTPd
To install Pureftpd on CentOS, run
```
yum install pure-ftpd
```
To start/stop, use
```
systemctl start pure-ftpd
systemctl stop pure-ftpd
```
To enable system users to login, edit /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf, un comment the line UnixAuthentication yes.
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