An Ultimate Guide to Setting Up FTP Server to Allow Anonymous Logins

 

Setting up a FTP Server in Linux

To set up FTP in our server we will install the following packages:

# yum install vsftpd ftp         [CentOS]
# aptitude install vsftpd ftp    [Ubuntu]
# zypper install vsftpd ftp      [openSUSE]

The vsftpd package is an implementation of a FTP server. The name of the package stands for Very Secure FTP Daemon. On the other hand, ftp is the client program that will be used to access the server.

Keep in mind that during the exam, you will be given only one VPS where you will need to install both client and server, so that is precisely the same approach that we will follow in this article.

In CentOS and openSUSE, you will be required to start and enable the vsftpd service:

# systemctl start vsftpd && systemctl enable vsftpd

In Ubuntu, vsftpd should be started and set to start on subsequent boots automatically after the installation. If not, you can start it manually with:

$ sudo service vsftpd start

Once vsftpd is installed and running, we can proceed to configure our FTP server.