The vsftpd package contains a very secure and very small FTP daemon. This is useful for serving files over a network.
Download (FTP): ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans/vsftpd-2.0.5.tar.gz
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Estimated disk space required: 1.5 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
Linux-PAM-0.99.10.0, OpenSSL-0.9.8g, TCP Wrapper-7.6, and libcap
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/vsftpd
For security reasons, running vsftpd as an unprivileged user and group is
encouraged. Also, a user should be created to map anonymous users.
As the root
user, create the needed
directories, users, and groups with the following commands:
install -v -d -m 0755 /var/ftp/empty && install -v -d -m 0755 /home/ftp && groupadd -g 47 vsftpd && useradd -d /dev/null -c "vsftpd User" -g vsftpd -s /bin/false \ -u 47 vsftpd && groupadd -g 45 ftp && useradd -c anonymous_user -d /home/ftp -g ftp -s /bin/false -u 45 ftp
Build vsftpd as an unprivileged user using the following command:
make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Once again, become the root
user
and install vsftpd with the
following commands:
install -v -m 755 vsftpd /usr/sbin/vsftpd && install -v -m 644 vsftpd.8 /usr/share/man/man8 && install -v -m 644 vsftpd.conf.5 /usr/share/man/man5 && install -v -m 644 vsftpd.conf /etc
install -v -d ...:
This creates the directory that anonymous users will use
(/home/ftp
) and the directory the
daemon will chroot into (/var/ftp/empty
).
/home/ftp
should not be owned by
the user vsftpd
, or the user
ftp
.
echo "#define VSF_BUILD_TCPWRAPPERS" >>builddefs.h: Use this prior to make to add support for tcpwrappers.
echo "#define VSF_BUILD_SSL" >>builddefs.h: Use this prior to make to add support for SSL.
install -v -m ...:
The Makefile
uses non-standard
installation paths. These commands install the files in
/usr
and /etc
.
vsftpd comes with a basic
anonymous-only configuration file that was copied to /etc
above. While still as root
, this file should be modified because it
is now recommended to run vsftpd in standalone mode as
opposed to inetd/xinetd mode. Also, you should
specify the privilege separation user created above. Finally, you
should specify the chroot directory. man vsftpd.conf will give you
all the details.
cat >> /etc/vsftpd.conf << "EOF"
background=YES
listen=YES
nopriv_user=vsftpd
secure_chroot_dir=/var/ftp/empty
EOF
Install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/vsftpd
init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20080816 package.
make install-vsftpd
Last updated on 2007-04-04 14:42:53 -0500