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The document outlines the process of installing and configuring the vsftpd FTP server on an Ubuntu system. It includes commands for updating packages, installing vsftpd, creating a user, and troubleshooting connection issues. Ultimately, the configuration is successful, allowing the user 'ftpuser' to log in and transfer files via FTP.

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FTP

The document outlines the process of installing and configuring the vsftpd FTP server on an Ubuntu system. It includes commands for updating packages, installing vsftpd, creating a user, and troubleshooting connection issues. Ultimately, the configuration is successful, allowing the user 'ftpuser' to log in and transfer files via FTP.

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nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo apt-get update

[sudo] password for nllab20:


Hit:1 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease
Hit:4 https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu jammy/mongodb-org/6.0 InRelease
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease
Hit:6 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo apt-get install vsftpd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
vsftpd is already the newest version (3.0.5-0ubuntu1.1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo systemctl start vsftpd
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo systemctl enable vsftpd
Synchronizing state of vsftpd.service with SysV service script with
/lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable vsftpd
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo nano /etc/vsftpd.conf
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ ^[[200~sudo systemctl restart vsftpd
sudo: command not found
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo systemctl restart vsftpd
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo adduser ftpuser
Adding user `ftpuser' ...
Adding new group `ftpuser' (1001) ...
Adding new user `ftpuser' (1001) with group `ftpuser' ...
Creating home directory `/home/ftpuser' ...
Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...
New password:
BAD PASSWORD: The password is shorter than 8 characters
Retype new password:
Sorry, passwords do not match.
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: password updated successfully
Changing the user information for ftpuser
Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default
​ Full Name []: Shreeya
​ Room Number []: A3-303
​ Work Phone []: 123456789
​ Home Phone []: 789456123
​ Other []: 456123789
Is the information correct? [Y/n] Y
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo chown ftpuser:Shreeya /home/ftpuser
chown: invalid group: ‘ftpuser:Shreeya
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo chown ftpuser:ftpuser /home/ftpuser
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo chmod 750 /home/ftpuser
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ ftp localhost
ftp: Can't connect to `127.0.0.1:21': Connection refused
ftp: Can't connect to `localhost:ftp'
ftp>
ftp> exit
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo systemctl status vsftpd
× vsftpd.service - vsftpd FTP server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/vsftpd.service; enabled; vendor preset>
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2025-02-20 12:15:10 IST; 3min>
Process: 7707 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/vsftpd/empty (code=exited>
Process: 7709 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd.conf (code=exited, sta>
Main PID: 7709 (code=exited, status=2)
CPU: 4ms

Feb 20 12:15:10 nllab-20 systemd[1]: Starting vsftpd FTP server...


Feb 20 12:15:10 nllab-20 systemd[1]: Started vsftpd FTP server.
Feb 20 12:15:10 nllab-20 systemd[1]: vsftpd.service: Main process exited, code=>
Feb 20 12:15:10 nllab-20 systemd[1]: vsftpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-c>
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nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo systemctl restart vsftpd
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo systemctl status vsftpd
× vsftpd.service - vsftpd FTP server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/vsftpd.service; enabled; vendor preset>
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2025-02-20 12:18:56 IST; 1s a>
Process: 7780 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/vsftpd/empty (code=exited>
Process: 7781 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd.conf (code=exited, sta>
Main PID: 7781 (code=exited, status=2)
CPU: 4ms

Feb 20 12:18:56 nllab-20 systemd[1]: Starting vsftpd FTP server...


Feb 20 12:18:56 nllab-20 systemd[1]: Started vsftpd FTP server.
Feb 20 12:18:56 nllab-20 systemd[1]: vsftpd.service: Main process exited, code=>
Feb 20 12:18:56 nllab-20 systemd[1]: vsftpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-c>

nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo vsftpd /etc/vsftpd.conf


500 OOPS: run two copies of vsftpd for IPv4 and IPv6
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo vsftpd /etc/vsftpd.conf
500 OOPS: run two copies of vsftpd for IPv4 and IPv6
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo nano /etc/vsftpd.conf
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo systemctl restart vsftpd
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo systemctl status vsftpd
● vsftpd.service - vsftpd FTP server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/vsftpd.service; enabled; vendor preset>
Active: active (running) since Thu 2025-02-20 12:20:48 IST; 2s ago
Process: 7818 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/vsftpd/empty (code=exited>
Main PID: 7819 (vsftpd)
Tasks: 1 (limit: 9174)
Memory: 864.0K
CPU: 4ms
CGroup: /system.slice/vsftpd.service
└─7819 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd.conf
Feb 20 12:20:48 nllab-20 systemd[1]: Starting vsftpd FTP server...
Feb 20 12:20:48 nllab-20 systemd[1]: Started vsftpd FTP server.

nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ ftp localhost


Connected to localhost.
220 (vsFTPd 3.0.5)
Name (localhost:nllab20): Shreeya
530 Permission denied.
ftp: Login failed
ftp>
ftp> exit
221 Goodbye.
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ ftp localhost
Connected to localhost.
220 (vsFTPd 3.0.5)
Name (localhost:nllab20): ftpuser
530 Permission denied.
ftp: Login failed
ftp> exit
221 Goodbye.
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ cat /etc/passwd | grep ftpuser
ftpuser:x:1001:1001:Shreeya,,,:/home/ftpuser:/bin/bash
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ cat /etc/ftpusers
# /etc/ftpusers: list of users disallowed FTP access. See ftpusers(5).

root
daemon
bin
sys
sync
games
man
lp
mail
news
uucp
nobody
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ cat /etc/vsftpd/user_list
cat: /etc/vsftpd/user_list: No such file or directory
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ ftp localhost
Connected to localhost.
220 (vsFTPd 3.0.5)
Name (localhost:nllab20): anonymous
530 Permission denied.
ftp: Login failed
ftp> exit
421 Timeout.
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo nano /etc/vsftpd.conf
[sudo] password for nllab20:
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ cat /etc/vsftpd/user_list
cat: /etc/vsftpd/user_list: No such file or directory
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ echo "ftpuser" | sudo tee -a /etc/vsftpd.user_list
ftpuse
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo systemctl restart vsftpd
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo systemctl status vsftpd
● vsftpd.service - vsftpd FTP server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/vsftpd.service; enabled; vendor preset>
Active: active (running) since Thu 2025-02-20 12:47:18 IST; 12s ago
Process: 8479 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/vsftpd/empty (code=exited>
Main PID: 8480 (vsftpd)
Tasks: 1 (limit: 9174)
Memory: 860.0K
CPU: 4ms
CGroup: /system.slice/vsftpd.service
└─8480 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd.conf

Feb 20 12:47:18 nllab-20 systemd[1]: Starting vsftpd FTP server...


Feb 20 12:47:18 nllab-20 systemd[1]: Started vsftpd FTP server.

nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ ftp localhost


Connected to localhost.
220 (vsFTPd 3.0.5)
Name (localhost:nllab20): ftpuser
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/ftpuser/ftp
ftp: Login failed
ftp> exit
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ ls -ld /home/ftpuser
drwxr-x--- 2 ftpuser ftpuser 4096 Feb 20 12:15 /home/ftpuser
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo mkdir -p /home/ftpuser/ftp
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo chown ftpuser:ftpuser /home/ftpuser/ftp
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo chmod 750 /home/ftpuser/ftp
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo nano /etc/vsftpd.conf
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo systemctl restart vsftpd
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ sudo systemctl status vsftpd
● vsftpd.service - vsftpd FTP server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/vsftpd.service; enabled; vendor preset>
Active: active (running) since Thu 2025-02-20 12:51:06 IST; 2s ago
Process: 8534 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/vsftpd/empty (code=exited>
Main PID: 8535 (vsftpd)
Tasks: 1 (limit: 9174)
Memory: 860.0K
CPU: 4ms
CGroup: /system.slice/vsftpd.service
└─8535 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd.conf

Feb 20 12:51:06 nllab-20 systemd[1]: Starting vsftpd FTP server...


Feb 20 12:51:06 nllab-20 systemd[1]: Started vsftpd FTP server.
nllab20@nllab-20:~/Desktop/33221$ ftp localhost
Connected to localhost.
220 (vsFTPd 3.0.5)
Name (localhost:nllab20): ftpuser
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp>

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