FTP File Transfer Protocol

• Check for ftp using the command rpm -qa | grep ftp
• Install vsftpd using the command dnf install vsftpd in Fedora/RHEL based distros
• Edit the vsftpd.conf file using vim /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
• Find the following lines and make the changes as shown below,
  1. Disable anonymous login
     1. anonymous_enable=NO
  2. Uncomment
     1. ascii_upload_enable=YES
     2. ascii_download_enable=YES
  3. Uncomment -Enter your welcome message(Optional)
     1. ftpd_banner=Welcome to UNIXMEN FTP services
  4. Add at the end of this file
     1. use_localtime=YES
• systemctl start vsftpd
• systemctl enable vsftpd
• systemctl stop firewalld
  • TIP : Instead of stopping the firewalld, we can allow for the default port 21 in the firewalld
• systemctl disable firewalld
• Install FTP client on the client server using dnf install ftp

Commands to transfer files¶

1. ftp ip_addr
2. Enter username and password
3. bin
4. hash
5. put fileName
6. bye