Install FTP Server on Ubuntu

Here we go to install the very secure FTP on Ubuntu.

sudo apt-get install vsftpd

After finish install vsftpd, you may think of change the configuration for the application.

sudo nano /etc/vsftpd.conf

Once you open up the conf file with nano, you may see all the configuration available in this file and all the configuration name is identical. Change the setting as you need. For an example, the most important thing is to restrict the anonymous access we disable it. In the vsftpd.conf look for below parameters and change YES to NO.

anonymous_enable=NO

So now you may able to transfer file using your favorite FTP software. For me I am using WinSCP for a reason that it is really light weight.