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This document provides instructions for installing and configuring the PureFTPd FTP server on a Debian system. It describes downloading and installing PureFTPd and its dependencies, creating a dedicated FTP user and group, configuring PureFTPd to run as a daemon, and testing the FTP server functionality.

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Pureftpd Installation and Setup: From Debian Wiki

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PureFTPd Installation and Setup

PureFTPd Installation and Setup


From Debian Wiki

Contents
1 2 3 4 Introduction Requirements Pre-Installation Install Pure-FTPd 4.1 Create a new user 4.2 User Information 4.3 Resetting a password 5 Starting the FTP Server 6 Conguring Pure-FTPd 7 References

Introduction
The following HOWTO is aimed at installing and setting up a FTP server, based on Pure-FTPd, which supports multiple Virtual Hosts.

Requirements
A Debian Etch base installation - Installation HOWTO here. Root access to your server.

Pre-Installation
Before proceeding to install, update the necessary packages in Debian with these commands.
apt-get update apt-get upgrade

Install Pure-FTPd
In a Linux shell run the following:

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apt-get install pure-ftpd-common pure-ftpd

Now we need to create a new system group for pureftpd:


groupadd ftpgroup

Now we add a user for the group and give that user no permission to a home directory or a shell:
useradd -g ftpgroup -d /dev/null -s /etc ftpuser

Create a new user


Lets create our rst FTP user. In this example our user will be "justin":
pure-pw useradd justin -u ftpuser -g ftpgroup -d /home/pubftp/justin -N 10

In the above command we gave him a limit of 10 MB disk space with the option "-N 10". Now you have to enter justin's new password twice. By default your users will be saved in /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.passwd, but rst we have to update the pureftpd Database:
pure-pw mkdb

The "Database" here is simply a binary le but it is ordered and has an index for quick access.

User Information
To get some user details enter the following to get a complete list of all pureftpd users:
pure-pw list

If you want to show information about a specic user:


pure-pw show justin

This will show you detailed information about the user "justin". You will notice that the line "Directory: /home/pubftp/justin/./" has a trailing ./ but you shouldn't worry as this is simply the chroot for the user, which means he can't go "above" his directory.

Resetting a password

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If you forget the password for a user, you can reset it as follows:
pure-pw passwd justin

After a password reset update your database:


pure-pw mkdb

Starting the FTP Server


To test the server let's start it:
/usr/sbin/pure-ftpd -S 127.0.0.1,21 -c 30 -C 1 -l puredb:/etc/pureftpd.pdb -x -E -j -R

The shell will open up a new pure-ftpd session and you should be able to connect to your FTP server. Use an FTP client to test whether or not you are able to login with your user details you created. Once you are happy close the session o:
ctrl z

Conguring Pure-FTPd
Right so by now you have created a user and been able to connect to your FTP server. We now want to setup a few things so that we can run Pure-FTPd as a daemon. First you need to set Pure-FTPd as a standalone server:
vim /etc/default/pure-ftpd-common

Replace this:
STANDALONE_OR_INETD=inetd

With this:
STANDALONE_OR_INETD=standalone

Now we want to ensure that the standalone server checks our usernames and passwords against the pureftpd database le:
cd /etc/pure-ftpd/conf vim PureDB

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Add the following to that le (if it doesn't exist):


/etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb

Now we need to create a symbolic link to the PureDB le:


cd /etc/pure-ftpd/auth ln -s /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/PureDB 50pure ls -ls

You should now see a new le "50pure" linking to ../conf/PureDB. Restart Pure-FTPd:
/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd restart

Pure-FTPd should now startup in daemon mode and everything should be up and running.

References
Howto install pureftpd on a debian machine (http://www.debian-administration.org /articles/383) - by remofritzsche Pure-FTPd Website (http://www.pureftpd.org) | Retrieved from "http://linux.justinhartman.com/PureFTPd_Installation_and_Setup"

Categories: Debian Server | LAMP Tutorials

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