Pure-FTPd Configuration

Pure-FTPd Documentation

uci show pure-ftpd look at pure-ftpd.@pure-ftpd[0].authentication=…, if is set, by default it should be pure-ftpd.@pure-ftpd[0].authentication=puredb:/etc/pureftpd.pdb, if it's not change it to default value (or you can change filename and location as you wish)

addgroup pure_ftpd_grp #or any othername as you want

adduser -H -G pure_ftpd_grp pure_ftpd_user #adds user to previously created group - change groupname accordingly, afterwards you will be asked for password for user (-H indicates that I don't want to assign home directory - if you want to you need to change -H to -h /homedirectory)

pure-pw useradd FTP_LOGIN -u pure_ftpd_user -d /ftp_directory #change FTP_LOGIN, pure_ftpd_user and /ftp_directory as you wish (pure_ftpd_user is same as you created in previous step)

pure-pw mkdb

Of course you can change other properties like quotas, ratio…, you can use other authentication methods (LDAP, MySQL…), to do it read official documentation.

• See Pure-FTPd readme for explanation.
• If no setting, then default is '1' (enabled).

config pure-ftpd
	option port             '21'
	option noanonymous      '1'
	option chrooteveryone   '1'
	option maxclientsperip  '10'
	option maxclientsnumber '4'
	option peruserlimits    '3:4'
	option umask            '133:022'
	option authentication   'unix'
	option enabled          '1'

	option 'syslogfacility' 'none'

Pure-FTPd won't start if TLS is enabled and there is no certificate and key installed.

The private key concatenated with a certificate is expected at /etc/ssl/private/pure-ftpd.pem

Further information (certificate creation) is available at Pure-FTPd TLS Readme.