On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Niki Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net wrote:

Hi,

I'm currently fiddling with G4U (Ghost for Unix), and I need to setup a local FTP server in order to get it to work.

# yum groupinstall "FTP Server" --> installed vsftpd

Here's what I'd like to do :

• no anonymous access
• only one user (user 'install' / pass 'install')

The machine I'm installing it on has a static IP ok (192.168.1.252/255.255.255.0).

I tried to fiddle with the various configuration options in vsftpd.conf, but to no avail. Googled quite some, but the information I found doesn't seem reliable, more like contradictory.

One detail: this isn't a publicly accessible machine, e. g. it's not out there on the wild internet, only on the LAN, so there's no special security considerations.

Any suggestions ?

Niki Kovacs

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Niki, if the machine isn't on the internet, then you don't really need to worry about the security :)

But, to answer the question, do this:

in the /etc/vsftpd.conf, change anonymous_enable to NO

Taken from man vsftpd.conf:

anonymous_enable Controls whether anonymous logins are permitted or not. If enabled, both the usernames ftp and anonymous are recognised as anonymous logins.

Default: YES

I'm not sure if you can only allow a single user to access it though

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 09:21, Niki Kovacscontact@kikinovak.net wrote:

• only one user (user 'install' / pass 'install')

userlist_enable = YES userlist_deny = NO userlist_file = /etc/vsftpd.user_list

And then:

# echo install >/etc/vsftpd.user_list

That way only "install" will be able to log in to the FTP server.

HTH, Filipe