Pure-FTPd

Features include chroot()ed and/or virtual chroot()ed home directories, virtual domains, built-in 'ls', anti-warez system, configurable ports for passive downloads, FXP protocol, bandwidth throttling, ratios, LDAP / MySQL / PostgreSQL-based authentication, fortune files, Apache-like log files, fast standalone mode, text / HTML / XML real-time status report, virtual users, virtual quotas, privilege separation, TLS and more. Many people new to Unix are running Pure-FTPd because they find it easy to install. But that software is also used on embedded systems and highly loaded production servers, especially for hosting services. For large sites with centralized user management, Pure-FTPd provides flexible authentication schemes including SQL and LDAP backends, plus the ability to easily write new custom handlers in any language. In its current form, Pure-FTPd uses some OS-specific system calls. And although some portability work has been done in order to ease its port to other operating systems, only Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, ISOS, MirBSD, BSDi, DragonflyBSD, Darwin, Solaris, Tru64, Irix, AIX and HPUX are known to work, other operating systems may need some tweaks. With Linux, any modern distribution should be ok. Create a specific, unprivileged user and group called pure-ftpd, without any valid shell. Don't use this for anything else, including FTP virtual users. If having a user whose name begins with an underscore is a no-go for you, you can also call it pure-ftpd, without the underscore. Your server is ready. Just type 'ftp localhost' to test it. If you want to automatically run the server when the system boots, add the previous command to /etc/rc.d/rc.local or /etc/rc.d/boot.local . Don't forget the '&' sign. The "./configure" script accepts some arguments you might want to add before the compilation: --with-altlog: in addition to the syslog output, support logging into a specific file, in an alternative format. Currently, the CLF, Stats, W3C and xferlog formats are implemented. CLF (common log format) is the basic format produced by Apache, WebFS, Roxen and most web servers. These log files only record file transfers and they can feed web statistic software (Analog, Webalizer, etc.) to analyze the load of your FTP server. The Stats format is a special output format designed for log file analysis software. The W3C format is a standard format parsed by most commercial log analyzers (all analyzers with support for IIS should deal with it) . Xferlog is the traditional format created by wu-ftpd. Check the -O option later in this documentation for additional info. --with-brokenrealpath: some Solaris versions have a broken realpath() implementation. If altlog and/or pure-uploadscript doesn't seem to work properly on your system, try to recompile with this switch. --with-certfile= : the file with the TLS certificate (see README.TLS). The default is /etc/ssl/private/pure-ftpd.pem . --with-diraliases: support directory aliases ("shortcuts" for the "cd" command) . Please read the appropriate section about this (further in this manual) . --with-extauth: compiles support for external authentication modules. Please read README.Authentication-Modules and the pure-authd(8) man page before enabling this feature. Most users don't need it. --with-ftpwho: support for the 'pure-ftpwho' command. Enabling this feature needs some extra memory. Better use it when the server is run in standalone mode. It can be way slower in inetd mode. --with-language=english --with-language=albanian --with-language=german --with-language=romanian --with-language=french --with-language=polish --with-language=spanish --with-language=danish --with-language=italian --with-language=brazilian-portuguese --with-language=slovak --with-language=dutch --with-language=korean --with-language=swedish --with-language=norwegian --with-language=russian --with-language=traditional-chinese --with-language=simplified-chinese --with-language=hungarian --with-langu