HOWTO : Create a FTP server with user access (proftpd)

[Animortis]

How do you get proftpd to start automatically on booting your system?

EDIT:
And if it's supposed to start automatically, what can I do to get it to happen? Note: update-rc.d does not work, it says system startup links already exist.

[frodon]

System > Administration > Services is the place in ubuntu where you can choose which service to start on boot or not.

[Lostincyberspace]

I did use the tutorial but I have been having major problems with it after the tutorial ended so I saw others that had posted their information and got help so I figured I would try to see if it was some very small problem that I had missed some where. But thank you for the link to the forum I wil go there and see if I get more help. Oh and I know it is safe because no one can connect up to it at all.

[frodon]

You are not locking the user in one directory in your configuration which is what sound unsafe for me as the user will be able to browse your whole system what in general users want to avoid, but maybe here it is the purpose of your FTP server.

[bneese]

I am trying to get proftpd to work with RSA/Radius authentication. Do any of you have any experience with that? I can't seem to find much documentation on it. It might also be that I am a Linux newbie. Please help if you can. Thanks

[clparker]

All These Steps Should Work Just Fine In Hardy W/O Any Trouble?

[tk0]

First off great tutorial...
Well Im new to Ubuntu but I think Im making the transition nicely.

Where to begin... Ive used GPROFTPD and worked like a charm and with being behind a router (worked within and out of my LAN).. and upload/download/fxp all good, but only thing I didnt like is that it injected allot of useless stuff when compared to the conf used here.

So axed it, and wanted to use a clean conf.. but having issues... cant upload (used the PassivePort and MasqueradeAddress) and I have no idea why that is...any help would help.

TIA.


UPDATE: I was able to get it to work, just turned out I needed to open port 20-21 instead of just 21... upload/download works great... again thanks for this tut.

[plablo09]

This is a great tutorial, very helpful.
I've got an issue though:

I can connect to my server from my LAN (and apparently also from outside although I have´nt tested it thoroughly), but only using the ftp client that runs from the dos shell. I cannot connect from other ftp clients (I've tried filezilla and fireftp). Any help would be much appreciated.

I'll attach my proftpd.conf and the Filezilla log



Thanks

[Giak]

I've set my home directory to /home/myuser, so that's what I see when I log in. I've also added /home/myuser to the folders in GroFTPD, as well as /media/My Book. However, I can't see the folders there when I log in. Any idea why?

[rybaxs]

user@user-desktop:/home/FTP-shared$ sudo /etc/init.d/proftpd start
* Starting ftp server proftpd [fail]


i configure the proftpd and followed all instructions. but
my Ubuntu gutsy gibbon 7.10 ftp always [fail] when i start the ftp server.