Install and configure FTP and SFTP in Centos

Description: Here I have explained how to configure FTP and SFTP in centos

Procedure:

Setup FTP on Centos 

• Enable epel repository by using below command

[root@localhost ~] # wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-6.noarch.rpm

[root@localhost ~] # rpm -ivh epel-release-7-6.noarch.rpm

• Install ftp by using below command

[root@localhost ~] # yum install vsftpd

• Open /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf to configure ftp server. Made below changes in server

[root@localhost ~] # vi /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

anonymous_enable=NO

local_umask=022

chroot_local_user=YES  #(this property used to limit the users to their home directories.)

local_enable=YES

write_enable=YES

• Enable and start service

[root@localhost ~] # systemctl start vsftpd
[root@localhost ~] # systemctl enable vsftpd

• Verify installation by browse ftp://IP_ADDR

Setup SFTP on Centos 

Description: SFTP is the FTP service built into Secure Shell [SSH]

• SFTP Directory: The First thing you need to create a directory to host your FTP data.

# mkdir /data

# chmod 701 /data

• Create SFTP user and group: Now we are creating user and group to access ftp 

# groupadd sftp_users

# useradd -g sftp_users -d /data -s /sbin/nologin USERNAME

Where USERNAME is the name of user. Now set password to user 

# passwd USERNAME

• Create new user SFTP directory: We will create new directory to store data and assigned permission to user. 

# mkdir -p /data/USERNAME/upload

# chown -R root:sftp_users /data/USERNAME

# chown -R username: sftp_users /data/USERNAME/upload

• Configure sshd configuration file and add below content to the end of file.

# vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Match Group sftp_users

ChrootDirectory /data/%u

ForceCommand internal-sftp

• Save and close file. Restart ssh service for effect.

# systemctl restart sshd

• Check user by login using sftp USERNAME@IP_ADDR