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Building an FTP server with Pure-FTPd

Building an FTP server with Pure-FTPd - Linux Tutorial

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Building an FTP server with Pure-FTPd

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- One option for building an FTP server is to use Pure-FTPd. In this episode we'll take a closer look. - [Announcer] You are watching ITPro TV. (energetic electronic music) - Welcome back. I'm here with Don for more LPIC. And if you've been following along in our episodes, then you know that we kind of started diving into FTP in the last episode. And in this episode we're going to continue that. So what exactly are we going to be talking about? - Well, this time we're going to learn about Pure-FTPd, which is another FTP demon available inside of Linux. We'll learn some of its advantages over other products. We'll get a chance to see how to get it installed, and then how to configure it to be as secure, well as secure as we can make FTP. - So what can you tell us about Pure-FTPd, and why would we use it as opposed to vsftpd? - All right, well, vsftpd is far more common and honestly is usually the go to FTP server. But where Pure-FTPd kind of excels is it still has a focus on security…

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