How to Install ProFTPD on CentOS 6

Install ProFTPD on CentOS 6

ProFTPD (short for Pro FTP daemon) is an FTP server. ProFTPD is Free and open-source software, compatible with Unix-like systems and Microsoft Windows (via Cygwin). Along with vsftpd and Pure-FTPd, ProFTPD is among the most popular FTP servers in 

Unix-like environments today. Compared to those, which focus e.g. on simplicity, speed or security, ProFTPD's primary design goal is to be a highly feature rich FTP server, exposing a large amount of configuration options to the user.

• How to Install ProFTPD on CentOS 7

Step 1: Add the EPEL Repository

ProFTPD is part of Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL), which is a community repository of non-standard packages for the RHEL distribution. First, we’ll install the EPEL repository:

rpm -iUvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Step 2: Install ProFTPD

As a matter of best practice we’ll update our packages:

yum -y update

Then let’s install ProFTPD and any required packages:

yum -y install proftpd

Step 3: Configure ProFTPD

Let’s edit the configuration file for ProFTPD:

vi /etc/proftpd.conf

Change the ServerName to the hostname of your server. In the case below, ftp.hackthesec.co.in is an example:

ServerName "ftp.hackthesec.co.in"

Exit and save the file with the command :wq .

Restart the ProFTPD service:

service proftpd restart

Then set the ProFTPD service to start at boot:

chkconfig proftpd on

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