The File Transfer Protocol
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A secure way to confine FTP login users to a single directory
I needed to provide multiple users FTP logins, some able to write, some only to read, to a single FTP root directory. I very much wanted that they not see of the file system anything above that ...
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How to check the Passive and Active FTP
How do I check which FTP (Passive or Active) is running?
By default, passive FTP is running in linux, but how do I check?
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Webservice to perform cronjob, wget and ftp [closed]
Is there any webservice one can use to fetch an image from a site and store it on a remote ftpserver? (The ftpserver has only storage and no cron enabled)
There are a couple of sites doing ...
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include a binded folder for each new users created
In a nutshell, my ftp server consists of 2 folders for each individual users. so john has this on his directory
/home
+/john
+/pub <-- binded to /var/ftp
+/private
my public folder ...
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1answer
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Is there any FileZilla Server alternative (GUI based) in Linux?
I'm wondering is there any alternative to FileZilla server in Linux?
I'm looking for a server with GUI manager which offers nearly zero configuration so I can run and manage FileZilla server within ...
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1answer
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Share a directory over FTP with chroot_local enabled
I'm using vsftpd. By default, when I create a user, they are jailed in their directory which is /home/user.
I have enabled chroot_local_user=YES.
On the other hand, I also wanted to create a shared ...
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1answer
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Setting permissions with FTP
I'm having some issues setting up permissions for FTP. Read another thread on here regarding it, but I wasn't sure if it really matched what I needed.
Essentially, right now I've got the client's FTP ...
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How to ensure FTPeS uses a secure connection?
From: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/FTPS
Explicit:
If a client does not request security, the FTPS server can either allow the client to continue insecure or refuse/limit the ...
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VSFTPD Virtual User Group
Currently I have a Running vsftpd server in a Cent OS Machine with virtual users.
Users are authenticated using MySQL.
The users has all the permissions in their home directory and they are jailed ...
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How do i WGET an image from a webaddress and store it on a remote ftp location as a cronjob on dd-wrt
From a DD-WRT router I want to create a cron-job that wget's an image from a remote location. This image is to be passed on to a remote FTP server for storage.
The process is to be repeated every ...
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vsftpd fails pam authentication
Moving a tried-and-true vsftpd configuration onto a new server with Fedora 16, I ran into a problem. All seems to go as it should, but user authentication fails. I cannot find any entry in any log ...
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How to access the Local FTP YUM repo from client Machine
I setup the FTP server on Machine A 192.168.1.105 and created the YUM repo. And placed following contents in it.
#vi rhel-localftp.repo
[rhel-localftp.rep]
name=bla bla bla
...
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Implement ProFTPd server without chroot
Can I use ProFTPd without using a chroot jail (thereby preventing access to anything outside of the FTP root)? I have a requirement to have symlinks in my FTP source that point to locations outside of ...
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Permissions for FTP directory: Inherit directory owner
I am making multiple folders for users (userA/, userB/, etc.) where anyone can create/read a file/folder in any directory (userC can make fileX inside userA/). However, only the directory's owner can ...
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FTP cannot connect - connection closed by server
I entered the hostname, username/password and port, it seemed to connect but then the connection was lost, what should I check for? See the log below:
Status: Resolving address of ...
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1answer
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FTP timeout FIRST time
I'm using PureFTPd on MacOSX (Snow Leopard, not server version). When trying to access the FTP account from the outside via dyndns (e.g. using https://www.wormly.com/test_ftp_server) the connection ...
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1answer
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pureftpd - login authentication failed
I am on openSUSE 10.2, using pure-ftpd v1.0.21
I've added new virtual user, but I cannot connect (password is ok)
Output of verbose log:
Apr 10 17:10:35 hostzzz pure-ftpd: (?@xxx.yyy.zzz.uuu) ...
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FTP connection is hanged
I want to connect to a Windows 2003 server from my unix box. But when I am trying to do a FTP connection to the server address I am getting "Connected to server address" message and after that it is ...
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1answer
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How do I use implicit FTP over TLS
using any FTP client (I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 and tried using lftp), I want to be able to make an implicit TLS connection on a FTP server, but I can't quite manage to successfully connect(All I get is : ...
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Checksum on Network drive is really slow
I want to check if a bunch of files have copied without problem to a network drive. I am not able to ssh to the network drive, but I am able to mount it using FTP.
The number of files is about 220, ...
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1answer
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How can I write ftp command for a file transfer from one server to other?
How can I write ftp command for a file transfer from one server to other with a simple script?
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Using Filezilla to upload files to remote server under a proxy server
I am using Filezilla to upload files to my web server. I am under a proxy server of my college. I edited FTP proxy in Filezilla Settings. However, it shows the following error :-
Status: Selected ...
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Remote access SSH problem
I have been asked to setup a lab with 1 PC (fedora 18 OS) and 4 SGI (IRIX 6.5 OLD OS).
I am using a switch to connect them to university's network, and I asked tech guys to assign static IPs to them. ...
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Easiest way to duplicate directory over FTP
I want to duplicate a directory on an FTP server I'm connected to from my Mac via the command-line
Let's say I have file. I want to have files2 with all of file's subdirectories and files, in the ...
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1answer
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Enable previous command cycling at ftp prompt
Currently on pressing arrow keys or Ctrl+P/N, I see characters like
ftp> ^[[A
ftp> ^[[B
ftp> ^P
ftp> ^N
I would like to know, how to configure the ftp prompt so that I am able to view ...
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Linux Permissions vsftpd
I have mybb installed and running in /var/www/forums.
I have two users part of the www group, logan and www-data.
I have the recursive permissions of forums directory set to:
chmod -R 755 forums
...
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How to set up file permissions/ownership for FTP/Apache/PHP on CentOS
I have basic understanding of chmod and CentOS file permissions. 777 stands for 111111111 and rwx for each root, group, user, etc. What I can't get my head around is setting up Apache, FTP and PHP to ...
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Ksh Script to ftp multiple directories simultaneously
I'm new to this site and i have this problem:
I have a directory in unix with multiple directories in it. Each directory have around 5k files in it. So we are talking about 40k to 50k files. I need ...
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CentOS - how to install vsftpd for specific username to have specific directory access only?
I have VSFTPD installed in CentOS. Where i have one username "lesstrust1", when the user login i want the user only can upload/download to this path /var/www/html/oxwall
$ yum install vsfptd
$ ...
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proftpd mod mysql
I've setuped a proftpd server on a distant host. I made it work in some simple way, actif mod, with unix user, blocking user in /var/www. It was working nice, but now I need the mod sql (package ...
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In FTP, can I specify a remote directory using `~username` syntax?
I know the ftp username, password, and directory of the source.
I just want to download the whole thing to a new server.
Simple download.
The username is not root. So I wonder how I would specify ...
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vsftpd on Ubuntu not obeying filesystem permissions
I'm trying to set an FTP upload to a web root on Ubuntu 12.04 using vsftp.
The user has a local account, username_ftp. I changed their home to their web root in /etc/passwd.
...
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What is the use of literal command in ftp?
Browsing through FTP help (i.e. ftp> ?), showed me a command name literal, description of which is
ftp> ? literal
literal Send arbitrary ftp command
I tried to do some trial and ...
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proftpd does not change default group for new files
I am Trying to configure ProFTPd to change group for newly created files/directories.
In my config I have this:
<Directory /home/*>
GroupOwner www
</Directory>
Which does not seem to ...
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1answer
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unable to connect ftp in pasive mode
I'm try to connect to ftp which I've just configured but using FileZilla, I'm getting the following logs
Status: Connecting to x.x.x.x:21...
Status: Connection established, waiting for welcome ...
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Is it possible to enter a port range in /etc/services?
I have a passive FTP server setup that accepts ftp-data connections on a specific set of ports, ie 50000-50100
In the /etc/services file, I found the ftp-data entries:
ftp-data 20/tcp # ...
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How to install FTP server on Red Hat VM?
I have a windows machine and I need to transfer files from my machine to another Linux virtual machine which I have created.
How do I install a FTP server on those VM's to transfer files via FTP ...
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how to download pdf from http site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to download specific files from some url path with wget
I want to download pdf files from this site.
I tried wget -r -l 1 ...
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2answers
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getting 553 - cannot create file in vsftpd (ubuntu 12.04)
I'm trying to setup a ftp account for a user that has read/write access to one folder: /items/myuser
I've set up the account with username 'myuser' in Linux with the adduser command. After that, I've ...
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2answers
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How to loop through each file in FTP directory using a bash script [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to delete the oldest file over FTP using CURL?
I need to connect to a remote server using a bash script and then delete all files within the directory that are older ...
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How to upload tcpdumps in realtime to FTP?
I can do tcpdumps with this command:
tcpdump -w `date +%F-%Hh-%Mm-%Ss-%N`.pcap src 10.10.10.10 or dst 10.10.10.10
Q: I have an FTP server with username: FTPUSER and password FTPPASSWORD. How can I ...
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CentOS 6 VSFTP 553 Could not create file
I installed vsftpd yesterday on CentOS 6, however didn't get a chance to test it today. When I went to upload a test file it's coming back and giving me this error:
553 Could not create file
After ...
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1answer
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How to ensure that anonymous FTP has been disabled on a Solaris 10 system?
What line in which configuration files in the /etc/ftpd directory do I have to check to ensure that anonymous FTP has been disabled?
From my understanding now, to ensure that anonymous FTP is ...
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ftp server log to include more information
I am implementing the ftp server on linux box (fedora 11, vsftpd). Everything works good so far but i need Ftp server log files to contain transfer rate information.
At the moment when I use "get " ...
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Two exact copies of folder using FTP and command-line only
I'm looking for any solution that will allow me to emulate functionallity similar to Dropbox/rsync using only FTP protocol and command-line.
The general problem is, that I have to run it on a very ...
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How to override port settings when connecting to a public wifi?
I am connecting to a free public wifi, I want to connect or use other ports like FTP and SSH. What are the possibility to override it?
In order to connect to the internet, They are requiring me to add ...
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I uninstalled vsftpd, but I can still connect with sftp
I installed vsftpd and was in the process of configuring it. When I sent the vsftpd server stop command:
sudo service vsftpd stop
I received:
stop: Unknown instance
So I went ahead and ...
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1answer
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affordable cloud space for a duplicity backup? [closed]
I'm searching for around 1TB of cloud space for backup using the Unix/Linux duplicity backup tool? Are there any recommendations?
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How can I queue up an entire directory for FTP?
Currently I know how to do this:
curl -T file.zip ftp://server.domain.com/ --user username:password
Which will let me do a single file. However I can't figure out how to do it for a directory. I ...
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FTP Upload Hook [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to run a command when a directory's contents are updated?
I need to be notified and perform other tasks when a file is uploaded onto my server. Is there any ...
