PureFTPd on Linux Stream 10 offers a secure and efficient FTP server with encryption, user authentication, and high-performance file transfers.
This is a quick deployment and ready-to-run image.
Simple and rapid installation. Easy to maintain.
Configuration and connection to the PureFTPd on Linux Stream 10
To work, you should open ports 21, 22, 30000-50000 (TCP) in the network properties in the Amazon firewall. After purchasing and starting the VM, you should know its IP address. You can find it in the personal account of Amazon.
To connect to the Server, you should generate a “Private Key” in advance. This can be done using the following instructions (by choosing the “file format:” option “.ppk” in point 3) Guide – How To – Create and use Key Pair to connect to a VM
- Connecting to the VM using the PuTTY application. You can download it at the following link – Download
- Go to section SSH on the left panel, and then to Auth
- In the “Auth” section, click “Browse” and specify the path to the .ppk file you received earlier.
- Go to the home page of “Session”, enter the IP address of the VM, and click “Open”.
- In the opened console, you will need to enter the login ec2-user
- For help to manage users, type pure-pw
- Next, to create a user, run the command, where YourUser and YourDirFTP are the username:
> sudo pure-pw useradd YourUser -u 1001 -g 1001 -d /home/YourDirFTP -c “John Smith”
Make sure to update the database:
sudo pure-pw mkdb
User data can be viewed by running the command:
sudo pure-pw show YourLogin
The user can be controlled by commands:
- Change the user’s password: sudo pure-pw passwd YourLogin
- List of all users: sudo pure-pw list
- Delete a user: sudo pure-pw userdel <username>
Connecting to FTP using “FileZilla Client”
- To connect to PureFTPd, it is recommended to use the “FileZilla Client” application (you can download it from the link: Download FileZilla Client for Windows (64bit x86)).
- When connecting to the ftp server, you need to follow these steps:
- In the <Host> field, enter the VM IP address
- In the <Username> field, enter the name of the user you created in step 3 of the previous section
- In the <Password> field, enter the user password you created in step 3 of the previous section
- In the <Port> field, enter port 21
- When the data is entered, press Quickconnect
- After entering all the data and clicking on Quickconnect, you will successfully connect to the server.
Now you can work with your own PureFTPd server.
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