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Building an FTP server with vsftpd

Building an FTP server with vsftpd - Linux Tutorial

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Building an FTP server with vsftpd

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- Building an FTP server? Stay tuned to learn about VSFTPD and how to set it up. - [Announcer] You are watching ITProTV. - Welcome back. I'm your host, Sophie, and I'm here with Don from more L-PIC 2 Today's episode, we're going to be diving a little bit into something I'm definitely going to struggle to say, VSFTPD. So can you give us an overview of what we're talking about? - It just rolls right off the tongue. Doesn't it? - Doesn't it? - Well, we're going to start off with a little overview of VSFTPD and what it is, what it does. We'll get a chance to see how to get it installed. And then more importantly, our real focus today is how we can improve the security of what is an otherwise unsecured protocol. So, that's what we've got lined up here in this episode. - So what can you tell us about VSFTP and why we would use that as opposed to another FTP server? - Well, there certainly are a lot of FTP servers. And in fact, if you're running in an older Linux distribution, it may have an…

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