Installing and Configuring Pure-FTPD on RHEL / CentOS 7

Step 1: When you are ready to begin, go ahead and install Pure-FTPD using yum on server.

yum install pure-ftpd

Step 2: after installation Edit the default configuration (/etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf) and uncommnet the following lines.

PAMAuthentication yes

PureDB /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb

Save and close the file.

Step 3: Configure Service pure-ftp service

systemctl enable pure-ftpd

systemctl start pure-ftpd

Step 4: Create a new ftp user account for website account using pure-pw.

pure-pw useradd $USERNAME -u $USER -g $GROUP -d /path/to/ftp/directory

For Exmaple :  pure-pw useradd rajesh -u 1002 -g  1002 -d  /home/rajesh

$USERNAME = FTP username

$USER = System username (such as apache or www-data OR user id)

$GROUP = System group name (such as apache or www-data or group ID)

/path/to/ftp/directory = Directory location for the FTP to jail to (such as /var/www/htdocs/)

you can get the user id and group id via : cat /etc/passwd

Step 5: Save Pure-FTPD user database

pure-pw mkdb

systemctl reload pure-ftpd

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