ProFTPD-1.2.8p

Introduction to ProFTPD

The ProFTPD package contains a secure and highly configurable FTP daemon. This is useful for serving large file archives over a network.

Package information

Installation of ProFTPD

For security reasons, running ProFTPD as an unprivileged user and group is encouraged.

groupadd proftpd &&
useradd -c proftpd -d /home/ftp -g proftpd -s /bin/false proftpd

Install ProFTPD by running the following commands:

install_user=proftpd install_group=proftpd \
   ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
   --localstatedir=/var &&
make &&
make install 

Command explanations

install_user=proftpd install_group=proftpd : Specify the user and group identity for ProFTPD.

--prefix=/usr : This installs ProFTPD in /usr instead of /usr/local.

--sysconfigdir=/etc : This prevents the configuration files from going to /usr/etc.

--localstatedir=/var : This uses /var instead of /usr/var for lock and log files.

Configuring ProFTPD

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 http://www.proftpd.net/ 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

source /etc/sysconfig/rc
source $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/K50proftpd &&
ln -sf ../init.d/proftpd ../rc1.d/K50proftpd &&
ln -sf ../init.d/proftpd ../rc2.d/K50proftpd &&
ln -sf ../init.d/proftpd ../rc3.d/S50proftpd &&
ln -sf ../init.d/proftpd ../rc4.d/S50proftpd &&
ln -sf ../init.d/proftpd ../rc5.d/S50proftpd &&
ln -sf ../init.d/proftpd ../rc6.d/K50proftpd

Contents

The ProFTPD package contains ftpcount, ftpshut, ftptop, ftpwho and proftpd.

Description

ftpcount

ftpcount shows current number of connections.

ftpshut

ftpshut shuts down all proftpd servers at a given time.

ftptop

ftptop displays running status on connections.

ftpwho

ftpwho shows current process information for each session.

proftpd

proftpd the daemon itself.