From: Victor Subervi <victorsubervi at gmail.com> > Now that it's installed, how do I start it and add a user? I can hardly believe there is *no* documentation! Google: "vsftpd centos howto" First link is CentOS wiki: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Chroot_Vsftpd_with_non-system_users Third link is the Deployment_Guide: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-ftp-vsftpd-conf.html And the following links points to howtos... JD