How to configure an anonymous ftp server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5 and 6

Issue

  • How to configure an anonymous ftp server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

Resolution

  1. Verify the localhost line in /etc/hosts looks like the following:

     127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

  2. Next configure the vsftpd.conf file. NOTE: Back up the vsftpd.conf file

     # cd /etc/vsftpd
 # cp vsftpd.conf ./vsftpd.conf.ORIG

  3. Using an editor, open the file vsftpd.conf. Uncomment the line anonymous_enable=YES. Save and quit the vsftpd.conf file.

  4. Start the vsftpd service

     # service vsftpd start

  5. To test the configuration run the following commands:

     # ftp localhost
 Login with:
 username: anonymous
 password: root@local

  6. This should show an ftp prompt. Type 'bye' to exit to the command prompt.

  • Component
  • ftp

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