Configure FTP Server

[priyarajan]

hi all

Iam new to RedHat EL4 ,I want to configure FTP server to transfer a file from one machine to another using FTP.

Thanks

[Ivan Ferreira]

To enable the ftp server use:

service vsftpd start
chkconfig vsftpd on

You cannot access with root for security reasons, use another user account.

If you don't have installed the package, use system-config-packages to add the ftp server, or find the vsftpd rpm package in the cdrom and run:

rpm -ivh vsftpd-.rpm

Then run again the commands above.

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

By default root is disabled with ftp.

This is because ftp uses clear text authentication and you don't want the root password going around unencrypted.

For root, use sftp from openssh.

SEP

[Rick Garland]

If that other machine is running RH EL4 as well, then the SSH utilities are enabled by default on that other machine as well. Therefore, you can use the 'scp' or the 'sftp' commands to transfer the file from sysA to sysB.

As stated, ftp is not enabled by default. The Secure Shell utilities are enabled by default.

[Sung Oh]

you can consider rsync for file transfer, rsync server can be setup from source server.

by default RedhatEL4 should have rsync server and client rpm files, you need to install it and configure rsyncd.conf file from the source server and you should be able to transfer your files.

Here is rsync info web.

http://samba.org/rsync/

Sung