Danny Tsang » VSFTPD http://www.dannytsang.co.uk A diary of (mostly) technology related encounters in the life of Danny Tsang Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:01:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Enable SFTP On VSFTPD In Ubuntu http://www.dannytsang.co.uk/index.php/enable-sftp-on-vsftpd-in-ubuntu/ http://www.dannytsang.co.uk/index.php/enable-sftp-on-vsftpd-in-ubuntu/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:01:41 +0000 Danny http://www.dannytsang.co.uk/?p=2487
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    • ]]>     Enabling SFTP is very easy and makes FTP protocol a lot more secure than traditional FTP because passwords are not sent in plain text which is susceptible to a lot of things such as packet sniffers, man-in-the-middle, etc.

    Assuming VSFTPD has been installed (in the default location) edit the file /etc/vsftpd.conf and check there are security certificates installed and configured.

    There are two entries which start with either:
    dsa_cert_file
    dsa_private_key_file
    or
    rsa_cert_file
    rsa_private_key_file
    Each specifying a file path to where the key and certificates are located.

    The last step is to enable SFTP by adding the following line:
    ssl_enable=YES
    Save and exit the file and restart the FTP server sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart

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