The very Secure FTPd Service

• Vsftpd is a GPL licensed FTP server for UNIX systems, including Linux. It is secure and extremely fast. It is stable. Don't take my word for it, though. Below, we will see evidence supporting all three assertions. We will also see a list of a few important sites which are happily using vsftpd. This demonstrates vsftpd is a mature and trusted solution.

• Accesing to IFCA storage using the Ftp servers will be only allowed under TLS connection.

Clients

• There are several clients that supports this kind of connection (TLS), we will have as example of HOWTO by two of the most used

Filezilla Client

• The Filezilla client can be download from filezilla server for the

different kind of platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac) or from the common repository distrubutionfor linux systems.

1. For debian or Ubuntu

      sudo apt-get install filezilla

2. For Redhat

      yum install filezilla

• Howto use filezilla with TLS connection.

Lftp

• lftp client is available under common repositori distribution.
  1. For debian or Ubuntu

        sudo apt-get install lftp

  2. For Redhat

        yum install lftp

• Howto use lftp with TLS connection.