{"id":1651,"date":"2011-10-11T12:08:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T17:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2012-08-14T18:07:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T23:07:23","slug":"set-up-pure-ftpd-server-with-virtual-user-on-freebs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/set-up-pure-ftpd-server-with-virtual-user-on-freebs\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Set up a Pure-FTPd Server with Virtual User on FreeBSD"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This tutorial is for FreeBSD. If you are looking for setting up Pure-FTPd on Linux, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My client likes to send me a huge data file (More than 10GB after compressed). Since I don’t care about the security during the transfer, I decide to go with the old school technology: FTP.<\/p>\n

Basically, I need to set up a FTP server with virtual user. In the other words, the log in used by the FTP server has nothing to do with my system login, and I can easily disable that at any time.<\/p>\n

1.) Install Pure-FTPd<\/p>\n

\r\nsudo pkg_add -r pure-ftpd\r\n<\/pre>\n
2.) Create a user for Pure-FTPd, here I simply call it ftpuser<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
\r\nsudo adduser ftpuser\r\n<\/pre>\n
3.) Let say, we want to create a user called guest to access the ftp server. guest is a virtual user, and its virtual home is in \/home\/ftpuser\/guest<\/p>\n
\r\nsudo mkdir \/home\/ftpuser\/guest\r\nsudo chown -R ftpuser:ftpuser  \/home\/ftpuser\/\r\nsudo chmod a+rw -R \/home\/ftpuser\/\r\n<\/pre>\n
4.) Edit \/etc\/inetd.conf and add the following:<\/p>\n
\r\nftp     stream  tcp     nowait  root    \/usr\/local\/sbin\/pure-ftpd -O stats:\/var\/log\/pureftpd.log       pure-ftpd -l puredb:\/usr\/local\/etc\/pureftpd.pdb\r\n<\/pre>\n
5.) Restart inetd <\/p>\n
\r\nps -ax | grep inetd\r\nsudo killall -HUP inetd\r\nsudo \/usr\/sbin\/inetd -wW -C 6\r\n<\/pre>\n
6.) Edit \/etc\/syslog.conf <\/p>\n
\r\nsudo nano \/etc\/syslog.conf\r\n<\/pre>\n
7.) Restart syslog<\/p>\n
\r\nps -ax | grep syslog\r\nkillall -HUP syslogd\r\n\/usr\/sbin\/syslogd -ss\r\n<\/pre>\n
8.) Create a user and add it into the Pure-FTPd database:<\/p>\n
\r\nsudo pure-pw useradd guest -u ftpuser -d \/home\/ftpuser\/guest\/\r\n<\/pre>\n
You can also set the quota and maximum space:
\n1000 files, 100MB quota<\/p>\n
\r\npure-pw useradd guest -u ftpuser -d \/home\/ftpuser\/guest\/ -n 1000 -N 100 \r\n<\/pre>\n
9.) Set the password in case you forget the enter the password:<\/p>\n
\r\npure-pw passwd guest\r\n<\/pre>\n
10.) Update the database:<\/p>\n
\r\npure-pw mkdb\r\n<\/pre>\n
11.) If the system could not update the database, try this instead (One command, not two):<\/p>\n
\r\nsudo pure-pw mkdb \/usr\/local\/etc\/pureftpd.pdb -f \/usr\/local\/etc\/pureftpd.passwd\r\n<\/pre>\n
That’s it!<\/p>\n
–Derrick<\/p>\n
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