Now you will be able to connect to FTP server with users in the chroot list file. Then, Create a new file /etc/vsftpd.chroot_list, sudo nano /etc/vsftpd.chroot_listĪdd the users that you want to give access to FTP server. To do that, Edit nf file, sudo nano /etc/nf Restrict particular users to access the FTP serverįor added security, you can restrict FTP access to certain users by adding them to /etc/vsftpd.chroot_list file. You can now access the FTP home directory of the user ‘unixmen’.

On openSUSE/SUSE: sudo zypper in filezillaĪfter installing filezilla, open it, and enter the ftp server IP address, user name and password and click quickconnect. On Fedora/Redhat/CentOS systems: sudo yum install filezilla On Debian/Ubuntu based systems: sudo apt-get install filezilla Mostly, fileZilla is available on almost all Linux distributions default repositories. So let us install a graphical FTP client called Filezilla to make things much easier. Working from command-line mode might be bit difficult to newbies. Now you’ll be able to access the user’s FTP directory. Open up your browser and Navigate to ftp://ip-address/.

If you didn’t allow the vsftpd service through firewall, you may get a Connection timed out error.

Name (192.168.1.102:sk): unixmen # FTP usernameĪs you see in the above output, I will be able to connect to FTP server. As you see in the above output, we will be able to login to ftp server using the local user. Here ‘skopensuse’ is my local system user name. Password: # Enter password for the user 'skopensuse' Name (localhost:skopensuse): # Press Enter sudo systemctl restart vsftpd Test FTP Server in the local system itselfįirst let us try to login to our FTP server as shown below. Restart vsftpd service to take effect the changes. # Uncomment to enable ascii download and upload. # Uncomment and set YES to allow local users to log in. # Uncomment and Set banner name for your websiteįtpd_banner=Welcome to Unixmen FTP Server.

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