There are two kinds of users for FTP services. Therefore, in this article, we will look at how to set up FTP services using the vsftpd application. vsftpd is even shipped with some Linux distributions Just as we have many FTP server software (FTP applications) that can be installed on windows such as FileZilla, WinSCP, etc to share files between systems, also In Linux, there are many FTP server software (FTP applications) that can be used to set up FTP services.Įxamples of such applications that can be used in Linux are ProFTPD, CrossFTP, PureFTPD, uFT, Apache FTP Server, etc, but the default application/daemon used in Linux is the vsftpd daemon. FTP, which is the acronym for (File transfer protocol) is a protocol used to transfer or share files between two systems.įTP services is a server-client based services used in sharing files between a server and a client using the File transfer protocol (FTP).įor files to be shared, an FTP server will have to be in place (installed and configured) where files can be downloaded from or uploaded to by the client.

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