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Install proftpd in Slackware

Written by Mel Kham on October 8, 2009. Posted in Linux tutorials

ProFTPD is a FTP server. ProFTPD uses only one configuration file “/etc/proftpd.conf”, the config file is very similar to Apache’s config file, it can be used to configure multiple virtual FTP servers easily, and has chroot capabilities depending on the underlying filesystem. It can run as standalone server or inetd service. It’s able to work over IPv6.

Its design is modular, which enabled writing SSL/TLS encryption, RADIUS, LDAP and SQL extensions as modules.

Today will show you how to install proftpd on Slackware13.0

First download proftpd

#slackpkg  install proftpd

now edit to the /etc/proftp.conf

vi /etc/proftpd.conf

and change to

ServerName                      "ProFTPD Salckware Installation"
ServerType                      standalone

Now under root start yout proftpd server

#proftpd

and check if the proftpd running and listening

root@slackware-13:/# ps -ef | grep  proftpd
nobody    4195     1  0 01:00 ?        00:00:00 proftpd: (accepting connections)
pirat9    4276  4195  0 01:03 ?        00:00:00 proftpd: pirat9 - ::ffff:192.168.1.100: IDLE
pirat9    4277  4195  0 01:06 ?        00:00:00 proftpd: pirat9 - ::ffff:192.168.1.100: IDLE
root      4283  3333  0 01:13 pts/0    00:00:00 grep proftpd
root@slackware-13:/# netstat  -an | grep ftp
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     19818    /var/run/proftpd/proftpd.sock
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     19810    /var/run/proftpd/proftpd.sock

Now you can connect via shell commands :

[root@test11 ~]# ftp   192.168.1.105
Connected to 192.168.1.105 (192.168.1.105).
220 ProFTPD 1.3.2 Server (ProFTPD Default Installation) [::ffff:192.168.1.105]
Name (192.168.1.105:pirat9): 
331 Password required for pirat9
Password:
230 User pirat9 logged in
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> dir
227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,1,105,178,78).
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
226 Transfer complete

or connect from FTP client (GFTP) or others

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