Operation Manual

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Setting up an FTP server with
YaST
Using the YaST FTP Server module, you can congure your machine to function as
an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) server. Anonymous and/or authenticated users can
connect to your machine and download les using the FTP protocol. Depending on the
conguration, they can also upload les to the FTP server. YaST provides a unied
conguration interface for various FTP server daemons installed on your system.
You can use the YaST FTP Server conguration module to congure two different
FTP server daemons:
•
vsftpd (Very Secure FTP Daemon) and
•
pure-ftpd
Only installed servers can be congured. Standard openSUSE® media do not contain
the pure-ftpd package. However, if the pure-ftpd package is installed from an-
other repository, it can be congured using the YaST module.
The vsftpd and pure-ftpd servers have slightly different conguration options, especially
in the Experts Settings dialog. This chapter describes the settings of the vsftpd server ,
being the default server for openSUSE .
If the YaST FTP Server module is not available in your system, install the
yast2-ftp-server package.
To congure the FTP server using YaST, follow these steps:
Setting up an FTP server with YaST 403