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Showing posts with label Very Secure File Transfer Protocol Daemon (VSFTPD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Very Secure File Transfer Protocol Daemon (VSFTPD. Show all posts

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Very Secure File Transfer Protocol Daemon (VSFTPD

Features:
1. FTPD
2. Chroot jail
3. anonymous and local-user auth
4. Rate-limiting

Tasks:
1. Install 'vsftpd'
a. yum -y install vsftpd

2. Start the server
a. service vsftpd start
b. netstat -ntlp | grep 21

3. Configure service to start when system boots into multi-user runlevel
a. chkconfig vsftpd on
b. chkconfig --list vsftpd

4. Connect to the FTPD service:
a. Use web browser, which defaults to anonymous
b. Use standard FTP client, as anonymous
c. setsebool -P ftp_home_dir=1 - permits users access to their home directory
d. service vsftpd restart - for changes to take effect

5. Chroot jail local users & disable 'anonymous' access
a. chroot_local_user=YES - this jails users
b. service vsftpd restart - for changes to take effect
c. test connectivity as 'anonymous' and 'non-anonymous' users

6. Enable IPv6 listener:
a. listen_ipv6=YES - DO NOT USE WITH 'listen=YES(IPv4)'


7. Restrict 'non-anonymous' user's transfer rate
a. local_max_rate=1000 - restricts connections to 1000/bps (1K/s)