Comments on: How to set up an FTP server on Debian 10 Buster?

By: Me@Me.com

Me@Me.com — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 10:35:18 +0000

Great post. Very easy to follow. Thanks

By: angeloma

angeloma — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 14:54:01 +0000

In reply to Ernie. Thanks for your comment!

By: Ernie

Ernie — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 09:57:02 +0000

Thanks for your instructions, very helpfull. I only think that you should point out first, that Debian10 comes with a running SFTP service at port 22 and that from a point of security that is the preference. Especially with everybody using wifi and living close together.
However, like in my case, I need a port21FTP session to start on my local LAN so no security issues (I don’t live in a city nor do I have neighbours), that’s my second comment the port you mention is a data-channel port 20. Not the FTP service/command port 21 which is the default and works immediately after install.
Last but not least, the addition of a new ftp-user is very good but should be recommended also, I think, because it is otherwise tempting to use root/admin user “because it works” and therefor introducing logins (id/pwd) at root level to be present at other systems that use this FTP service. Just security wise.
By the way; the use of a pipe command && results in an error if at the stage something goes wrong. I didn’t see that coming on a virgin new Debian10 install, but I had to do ‘repairs’ to get it fixed with “sudo apt –fix-broken install”.
Thanks for the inspiration! Ernie.

By: Pablo Castro

Pablo Castro — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 03:35:24 +0000

In reply to Rulet. Check for typos in the vsftpd.conf and try to restart again

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 16:28:49 +0000

In reply to Rulet.

I have the same Problem. I think it happens if there is some error in your vsftpod.conf.

In my case I was using letsencrypt certificate, and had to set the correct path to the pem files:
rsa_cert_file=//fullchain.pem
rsa_private_key_file=//privkey.pem
Take care of the file extension…the default value for private key in vsftpd is .key !

Hope it helps.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 17:35:50 +0000

I have the same failed install

By: Rulet

Rulet — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 20:10:51 +0000

In reply to angeloma. I reinstalled vsftpd -- it didn't helped.

By: Rulet

Rulet — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 19:57:57 +0000

In reply to angeloma. Do you mean to reinstall vsftpd? No. Why do I have to do that?

By: angeloma

angeloma — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 19:51:44 +0000

In reply to Rulet. Unfortunately the output of systemd is not very clear on this. Have you tried reinstalling the package?

By: Rulet

Rulet — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 19:03:33 +0000

Got an error:

r@prime:~$ sudo systemctl status vsftpd
● vsftpd.service – vsftpd FTP server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/vsftpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2019-11-25 21:01:55 EET; 34s ago
Process: 4182 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/vsftpd/empty (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 4183 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd.conf (code=exited, status=2)
Main PID: 4183 (code=exited, status=2)

ноя 25 21:01:55 prime systemd[1]: Starting vsftpd FTP server…
ноя 25 21:01:55 prime systemd[1]: Started vsftpd FTP server.
ноя 25 21:01:55 prime systemd[1]: vsftpd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
ноя 25 21:01:55 prime systemd[1]: vsftpd.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
r@prime:~$

Any ideas(it is Debian 10 64 bit)