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
Install PureFTPd.
apt-get install pure-ftpd
Create a group named ftpgroup.
groupadd ftpgroup
Add the user "wendy" to the ftpgroup.
usermod –a –G ftpgroup wendy
For reassurance that wendy was added to the ftpgroup,view the /etc/group file.
cat /etc/groups | grep ftpgroup
Create a directory named ftpusers.
mkdir /home/ftpusers
Create a directory named jeremy. Of course, you can use a different username.
mkdir /home/ftpusers/jeremy
Create 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 useradd wendy -u ftpuser -d /home/ftpusers/wendy
Create the pureftpd.passwd database.
pure-pw mkdb
Create a symbolic link between /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.passwd and /etc/pureftpd.passwd.
ln -s /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.passwd /etc/pureftpd.passwd
Create a symbolic link between /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb and /etc/pureftpd.pdb.
ln -s /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb /etc/pureftpd.pdb
Creates a symbolic link between /etc/pure-fptd/PureDB and /etc/pure-ftpd/auth/PureDB.
ln -s /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/PureDB /etc/pure-ftpd/auth/PureDB
Recursively changes the ownership of /home/ftpusers/. The owner is root and the group owner is ftpgroup.
chown -hR root:ftpgroup /home/ftpusers/
The ps command can be used to determine if your system is using init or systemd. If PID 1 is init, then you will use the service command. If PID 1 is systemd, then you will use the systemctl command.
If your system is using systemd, use the systemctl command to start and enable Pure-FTPd.
systemctl enable pure-ftpd
systemctl start pure-ftpd
systemctl status pure-ftpd
If your system is using init, use the chkconfig and service commands to start and enable Pure-FTPd.
chkconfig pure-ftpd on
service pure-ftpd start
service pure-ftpd status
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:
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