8 Setting Up An Ftp Server With Yast - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

Setting up an FTP server with
YaST
Using the YaST FTP Server module, you can configure your machine to function as
an FTP server. Anonymous and/or authenticated users can connect to your machine
and download and, depending on the configuration, upload files using the FTP protocol.
YaST provides a unified configuration interface for various FTP server daemons installed
on your system.
The YaST FTP Server configuration module can be used to configure two different
FTP server daemons: vsftpd (Very Secure FTP Daemon) and pure-ftpd. Only installed
servers can be configured.
The vsftpd and pure-ftpd servers have slightly different configuration options, especially
in the Experts Settings dialog. This chapter describes the settings of the vsftpd server .
If the YaST FTP Server module is not available in your system, install the
yast2-ftp-server package.
To configure the FTP server using YaST, follow these steps:
1 Open YaST Control Center and choose Network Services > FTP Server or run
the yast2 ftp-server command as root.
2 If there is not any FTP server installed in your system, you will be asked which
server to install when the YaST FTP Server module starts. Choose a server and
confirm the dialog.
3 In the Start-Up dialog, configure the starting of the FTP server. For more infor-
mation, see Section 28.1, "Starting the FTP server" (page 414).
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