How to create ftp in google cloud compute engine? I can connect via SFTP without any issues, but my company is using a software to connect via FTP to download a XML file from the server. Unfortunately that software doesn't have SFTP connection facilities.
I saw lots of examples from the internet and to connect via SFTP not FTP.
Any idea's or tutorials ?
I found a way to do this, Please advice is there any risks.
apt-get install vsftpd libpam-pwdfile
nano /etc/vsftpd.conf
And inside the vsftpd.conf config file.
# vim /etc/vsftpd.conf listen=YES listen_ipv6=NO anonymous_enable=NO local_enable=YES write_enable=YES local_umask=022 nopriv_user=vsftpd chroot_local_user=YES allow_writeable_chroot=yes guest_username=vsftpd virtual_use_local_privs=YES guest_enable=YES user_sub_token=$USER local_root=/var/www/$USER hide_ids=YES listen_address=0.0.0.0 pasv_min_port=12000 pasv_max_port=12100 pasv_address=888.888.888.888 # My server IP listen_port=211 Remove everything from the file and add these lines instead
auth required pam_pwdfile.so pwdfile /etc/ftpd.passwd
account required pam_permit.so
Create the main user that will be used by the virtual users to authenticate:
useradd --home /home/vsftpd --gid nogroup -m --shell /bin/false vsftpd
Once that is done we can create our users/passwords file.
htpasswd -cd /etc/ftpd.passwd helloftp
Next, add the directories for the users since vsftpd will not create them automatically.
mkdir /var/www/helloproject
chown vsftpd:nogroup /var/www/helloproject
chmod +w /var/www/helloproject
Finally, start the vsftp daemon and set it to automatically start on system boot.
systemctl start vsftpd && systemctl enable vsftpd
Check the status to make sure the service is started:
systemctl status vsftpd
● vsftpd.service - vsftpd FTP server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/vsftpd.service; enabled) Active: active (running) since Sat 2016-12-03 11:07:30 CST; 23min ago Main PID: 5316 (vsftpd) CGroup: /system.slice/vsftpd.service ├―5316 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd.conf ├―5455 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd.conf └―5457 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd.conf Finally add firewall rules to access via cloud.
Later I have changed my IP from 0.0.0.0 for more restriction