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Configure the FTP server

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Configure the FTP server

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- [Voiceover] In order to allow FTP clients to connect to a server and send and receive files we'll need to install and configure FTP server software. Let's see what's available in our distros repository for this. I'll type yum search ftp here on my CentOS system. On Ubuntu, I'd type apt-cache search namesonly ftp and pipe that to last. The first entry here is called just FTP, which I can see is the client. That's not what I want right now. I want a server, or, in the case of this software, a daemon. Software rich runs in the background and processes commands. Here is vsftpd, that looks promising. You may have some other options depending on which distro you are using, but vsftpd is available on both CentOS and Ubuntu, so I'll use that. I'll install it with my package manager. sudo yum install vsftpd or, on Ubuntu, sudo apt-install vsftpd Alright, with that installed, the next thing we need to do is configure the server. The settings for vsftpd are stored in the vsftpd.conf file…

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