Guide – How To Start – FTP Server on Ubuntu 21.04

Connection to Ubuntu 21.04 with FTP Server4

After purchasing and starting the VM you should know its IP address. You can find it in the personal account of Azure. (You need to select the virtual machine from the list. By clicking the item “Overview”, your IP is displayed in the line of “Public IP Address”).

For the VM to work, you need to open port 21(TCP), 22(TCP), 50000-51000(TCP) in the network properties in Azure Firefall

To connect to a VM, you need the PuTTy application to connect via ssh. You can download it at the following link – Download

Run Putty, enter the VM address in the “Host” field, and click “Open” to connect.

In the opened console you should enter a username and password that were specified when creating the virtual machine.

Run “FileZilla Client”, enter the VM address, port, username and password that were specified when creating the virtual machine

Click “Quickonnect”

You have successfully connected to the server and can work with this service

The examples of the basic ftp user management commands that can be entered after connecting in the PuTTY client:

To create a new user enter: sudo useradd -m username, where username is a name of the new user

The changing of the password for an existing user: sudo passwd username

The deletion of user: sudo userdel username

The blocking of user account: (works only for password login): sudo usermod -L username

The unblocking of user account:(works only for password login): sudo usermod -U username