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Anonymous FTP on Ubuntu 12.04 Server with VSFTPD
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Anonymous FTP on Ubuntu 12.04 Server with VSFTPD

I know that basic FTP is not ideal and not secure.  But it is widely supported and used, and sometimes if we’re moving around large files across a network it comes in incredibly useful.

This tutorial will go through setting up an FTP server on Ubuntu 12.04 Server which is allowing anonymous connections.  I wouldn’t recommend you try this on an internet facing host, and would recommend when not in use you turn VSFTP off even on your internal network.

apt-get install vsftpd

Since we’ll be making changes lets stop the services:

service vsftpd stop

An account called FTP will be added automatically to your server, so lets create an appropriate directory:

mkdir /var/ftp

Give the appropriate permissions:

chown -hR ftp:ftp /var/ftp
chmod 777 /var/ftp

Now to enable our anonymous access we have to make some changes to the config to reflect all the FTP details we made above:

mv /etc/vsftpd.conf /etc/vsftp_conf_original

Create a new files:

nano /etc/vsftpd.conf

Paste the following in, or if you’ve made any changes above make sure you put in your changes into the appropriate places:

#
# Anonymous FTP Access
# Use at your own risk…
listen=YES
local_enable=NO
anonymous_enable=YES
write_enable=NO
anon_root=/var/ftp

[ctrl]+O to save, and [ctrl]+X to exit.

Now lets start up VSFTP:

service vsftpd start

Open up your favorite FTP client and connect away.

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Written by gyp - March 9, 2013 - 1148 Views
Tags | ftp, internet, vsftp

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