Red Hat Linux 9 How to set up an FTP server

1. Install VSFTPD Server

VSFTPD is currently one of the best Linux FTP Server Tools, of which vs is "Very secure" (very safe) abbreviation, visible its greatest advantage is security, in addition, it also has a small size, can be customized strong, high efficiency advantages.

If you choose to install Red Hat Linux 9.0 completely, the system defaults to installing the VSFTPD server. We can enter the following in the Terminal command window

Command for authentication:

[Root@ahpeng Root] rpm-qagrep vsftpd

If the result is displayed as "Vsftpd-1.1.3-8," the VSFTPD server is already installed on the system. If you do not select the VSFTPD server when you install Red Hat Linux 9.0, you can click the main menu → system settings → add Delete application menu item in the graphics environment, make sure the FTP server option is selected in the Package Management dialog box that appears, and then click the Update button. Follow the on-screen instructions to insert the 3rd installation disc to begin the installation.

Alternatively, you can insert the 3rd installation CD directly, navigate to the VSFTPD-1.1.3-8.I386.RPM installation package under/redhat/rpms, and then run the following command in the Terminal Command window to begin the installation process:

[Root@ahpeng RPMS] RPM-IVH vsftpd-1.1.3-8.i386.rpm

2. Start/reboot/stop VSFTPD service

Starting with red Hat Linux 9.0, vsftpd only starts the VSFTPD service in standalone mode by default, by running the following command in a Terminal command window:

[Root@ahpeng Root]/etc/rc.d/init.d/vsftpd start

Restart the VSFTPD service:

[Root@ahpeng Root]/etc/rc.d/init.d/vsftpd restart

Turn off the VSFTPD service:

[Root@ahpeng Root]/etc/rc.d/init.d/vsftpd stop

After confirming that the VSFTPD service has started, we can enter "FTP Ftpaddres" (using the Actual FTP server IP address or domain name instead of ftpaddres) in any Windows Host's DOS command window, note that the username and password are FTP ( FTP is an anonymous user's mapped user account, as described below: