Uninstall and remove pure-ftpd Package In this tutorial you will learn how to update and install pure-ftpd On Ubuntu 16.04 Lts? Learn how to uninstall and completely remove the package pure-ftpd from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Operating System. Start by launching YAST (K Menu => System => YAST). In the left pane of the YAST window, click 'Software'. In the right pane, click 'Install and Remove Software'. In the search field, type 'FTP'. Click 'Search'. From the search results, click the checkbox next to 'pure-ftpd'. Click 'Accept' to initiate the installation process. Now add the new group 'ftpgroup' and the new user for the master 'FTP user' called 'ftpuser' to the group. Go to the pure-ftpd directory and edit the configuration file 'pure-ftpd.conf' with the vim editor: Change the value in line 81 to 'yes' for the disabling the anonymous user.

Jan 25, 2005 To start the Pure-FTPd service (and set it up to start every time your server starts up), select 'System' from the left pane of the YAST window. In the right pane, click 'Runlevel Editor'. In the window that opens, click the 'Expert Mode' radio button. Scroll down the list of Services until you find 'pure-ftpd'; select it with a single click.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server was recently released and I decided to install it for testing purposes… the steps below is how I got Pure-FTPD installed and configured…

FTP is still one of the easiest ways to upload and download files from remote serves… However, when using FTP, it’s better to add some levels of security by using SSL/TLS protocols…

This post shows students and new users how to install and configure Pure-FTPD to use SSL/TLS certificates on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server with encryption enabled..

The reasons you may want SSL/TLS enabled on FTP is that FTP communicates over insecure channel… and someone with the right tool could intercept data between the server and client read it. With SSL/TLS, even if the data is intercepted, they may still be unable to read the content, and that’s because of the extra security.

For this post, we’re going to be using a self-signed certificate… If you can afford public cert, then more power to you..

Step 1: Install Pure-FTPD on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

To install Pure-FTPD on Ubuntu, run the commands below…

After installing Pure-FTPD, the commands below can be used to stop, start and enable the server service to always start up when the server boots…

Step 2: Create a Self-signed SSL/TLS certificate

Now that Pure-FTPD is installed, run the commands below to generate a self-signed SSL/TLS certificate for the server… the commands create both the server key and certificate files and store in /etc/ssl/private directory….

It’s important that you keep both server key and certificate files names to be pure-ftpd.pem and should live in the /etc/ssl/private directory.

sudo openssl req -x509 -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/ssl/private/pure-ftpd.pem -out /etc/ssl/private/pure-ftpd.pem -days 365

After running the commands above, you’ll be prompted to answer few questions about the certificate you’re generating… answer them and complete the process.

VSFTP server will use the key and certificate created above…

Step 3: Configuring Pure-FTPD to use SSL/TLS

Now that you’ve generated the server private key and certificate files, go and configure Pure-FTPD to use the SSL/TLS certificate created above… To do that, run the commands below as root (sudo bash) to force Pure-FTPD to communicate over TLS.

echo '2' > /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/TLS

Step 3: Restart Pure-FTPD Server

After adding the highlighted lines to the file, save it. Then run the commands below to restart Pure-FTPD server.

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sudo systemctl restart pure-ftpd

Now grab your favorite FTP client (FileZilla) and setup a new site in your site manage and use FTP protocol with encryption with explicit FTP over TLS… Type your username and password and connect.

You should be prompted with a certificate… accept the certificate and continue. You may check the box at the bottom of the page to trusted the certificate so you don’t get prompted in the future…

Step 1: Install Pure-FTPD on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Step 2: Create a Self-signed SSL/TLS certificate

Step 3: Configuring Pure-FTPD to use SSL/TLS

Step 3: Restart Pure-FTPD Server

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