Configuring <application>ProFTPD</application>
Config files
/etc/proftpd.conf
This is a simple, download-only sample configuration. See the ProFTPD
documentation in /usr/share/doc/proftpd
and consult the website at
for example configurations.
cat > /etc/proftpd.conf << "EOF"
# This is a basic ProFTPD configuration file
# It establishes a single server and a single anonymous login.
ServerName "ProFTPD Default Installation"
ServerType standalone
DefaultServer on
# Port 21 is the standard FTP port.
Port 21
# Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new dirs and files
# from being group and world writable.
Umask 022
# To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes
# to 30. If you need to allow more than 30 concurrent connections
# at once, simply increase this value. Note that this ONLY works
# in standalone mode, in inetd mode you should use an inetd server
# that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service
# (such as xinetd)
MaxInstances 30
# Set the user and group that the server normally runs at.
User proftpd
Group proftpd
# Normally, we want files to be overwritable.
<Directory /*>
AllowOverwrite on
</Directory>
# A basic anonymous configuration, no upload directories.
<Anonymous ~proftpd>
User proftpd
Group proftpd
# We want clients to be able to login with "anonymous" as well as "proftpd"
UserAlias anonymous proftpd
# Limit the maximum number of anonymous logins
MaxClients 10
# We want 'welcome.msg' displayed at login, and '.message' displayed
# in each newly chdired directory.
DisplayLogin welcome.msg
DisplayFirstChdir .message
# Limit WRITE everywhere in the anonymous chroot
<Limit WRITE>
DenyAll
</Limit>
</Anonymous>
EOF
proftpd init.d script
cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/proftpd << "EOF"
#!/bin/sh
# Begin $rc_base/init.d/proftpd
# Based on sysklogd script from LFS-3.1 and earlier.
# Rewritten by Gerard Beekmans - gerard@linuxfromscratch.org
. /etc/sysconfig/rc
. $rc_functions
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting FTP Server..."
loadproc /usr/sbin/proftpd
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping FTP Server..."
killproc /usr/sbin/proftpd
;;
reload)
echo "Reloading FTP Server..."
reloadproc /usr/sbin/proftpd
;;
restart)
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
;;
status)
statusproc /usr/sbin/proftpd
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|reload|restart|status}"
exit 1
;;
esac
# End $rc_base/init.d/proftpd
EOF
chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/proftpd
Create the symbolic links to this file in the relevant rc.d directories with the following
commands:
cd /etc/rc.d/init.d &&
ln -sf ../init.d/proftpd ../rc0.d/K28proftpd &&
ln -sf ../init.d/proftpd ../rc1.d/K28proftpd &&
ln -sf ../init.d/proftpd ../rc2.d/K28proftpd &&
ln -sf ../init.d/proftpd ../rc3.d/S32proftpd &&
ln -sf ../init.d/proftpd ../rc4.d/S32proftpd &&
ln -sf ../init.d/proftpd ../rc5.d/S32proftpd &&
ln -sf ../init.d/proftpd ../rc6.d/K28proftpd