To install PureFTPd in Linux, enter the following commands in the Linux Terminal. If using a Red Hat version of Linux (CentOS / RHEL), replace apt-get with yum. Also, if using CentOS, you will need to update:
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-7.noarch.rpm
apt-get install pure-ftpd
This command is used to install PureFTPd.
groupadd ftpgroup
This created a group named ftpgroup.
usermod –a –G ftpgroup wendy
This adds the user "wendy" to the ftpgroup.
cat /etc/groups | grep ftpgroup
For reassurance that wendy was added to the ftpgroup, we can view the /etc/group file.
mkdir /home/ftpusers
This creates a directory named ftpusers.
mkdir /home/ftpusers/jeremy
This creates a directory named jeremy. Of course, you can use a different username.
pure-pw useradd wendy -u ftpuser -d /home/ftpusers/wendy
This creates a user account named jeremy to PureFTPd, and sets the directory for the user account. If using CentOS, you need to use the uid and gid, such as: pure-pw useradd wendy -u 1000 -g 1001 -d /home/ftpusers/wendy
pure-pw mkdb
This creates the pureftpd.passwd database.
ln -s /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.passwd /etc/pureftpd.passwd
This creates a symbolic link between /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.passwd and /etc/pureftpd.passwd.
ln -s /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb /etc/pureftpd.pdb
This creates a symbolic link between /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb and /etc/pureftpd.pdb.
ln -s /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/PureDB /etc/pure-ftpd/auth/PureDB
This creates a symbolic link between /etc/pure-fptd/PureDB and /etc/pure-ftpd/auth/PureDB.
chown -hR root:ftpgroup /home/ftpusers/
This recursively changes the ownership of /home/ftpusers/. The owner is root and the group owner is ftpgroup.
service pure-ftpd restart
This restarts the PureFTPd service.
service pure-ftpd status
Let's make sure pure-ftpd is active and running.
Optional: Pureadmin can also be installed using apt-get or yum if we want to administer PureFTPd using the Pureadmin GUI application.
apt-get install Pureadmin
yum install Pureadmin
In order for computers to be able to connect to our FTP Server:
- Routers in LAN will need to forward traffic on port 21 to the private IP address of the computer in our LAN that is running PureFTPd. Nmap can be used to verify if port 21 is open.
- The iptables firewall will need to allow traffic on port 21.
If some problem occurs, for which you need to completely uninstall Pure-FTPd, use these commands.
apt-get remove --auto-remove pure-ftpd-common
apt-get purge pure-ftpd-common