How To Install proftpd on CentOS 8
proftpd is Flexible, stable and highly-configurable FTP server
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install proftpd on CentOS 8.
What is proftpd
ProFTPD is an enhanced FTP server with a focus toward simplicity, security, and ease of configuration. It features a very Apache-like configuration syntax, and a highly customizable server infrastructure, including support for multiple ‘virtual’ FTP servers, anonymous FTP, and permission-based directory visibility. This package defaults to the standalone behavior of ProFTPD, but all the needed scripts to have it run by systemd instead are included.
We can use yum or dnf to install proftpd on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install proftpd.
Install proftpd on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install proftpd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install proftpd
Install proftpd on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install proftpd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install proftpd
How To Uninstall proftpd on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the proftpd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove proftpd
proftpd Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/blacklist.dat
/etc/dhparams.pem
/etc/ftpusers
/etc/logrotate.d
/etc/logrotate.d/proftpd
/etc/pam.d/proftpd
/etc/proftpd
/etc/proftpd.conf
/etc/proftpd/anonftp.conf
/etc/proftpd/conf.d
/etc/proftpd/mod_ban.conf
/etc/proftpd/mod_qos.conf
/etc/proftpd/mod_tls.conf
/etc/proftpd/modules.conf
/etc/sysconfig/proftpd
/run/proftpd
/usr/bin/ftpdctl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/0fad7387af13b5562ae0a9a964feabf14395a6
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/usr/lib/.build-id/23/b0b592bb04f846d3a0b894c3922710d9aee9e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/24
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/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/f959f567bbff6edfb46c7fded77b4211dd8548
/usr/lib/systemd/system/proftpd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/proftpd.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/proftpd.conf
/usr/libexec/proftpd
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_ban.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_copy.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_ctrls_admin.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_deflate.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_exec.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_facl.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_ifsession.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_ifversion.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_load.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_qos.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_quotatab.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_quotatab_file.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_quotatab_radius.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_quotatab_sql.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_radius.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_ratio.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_rewrite.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_sftp.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_sftp_pam.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_sftp_sql.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_shaper.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_site_misc.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_sql.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_sql_passwd.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_tls_memcache.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_tls_shmcache.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_unique_id.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_vroot.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_wrap2.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_wrap2_file.so
/usr/libexec/proftpd/mod_wrap2_sql.so
/usr/sbin/ftpscrub
/usr/sbin/ftpshut
/usr/sbin/in.proftpd
/usr/sbin/proftpd
/usr/share/doc/proftpd
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/Configuration.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/Configuration.pdf
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/Configuration.sgml
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/README.DSO
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/README.IPv6
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/README.PAM
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/README.capabilities
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/README.classes
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/README.contrib
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/README.controls
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/README.facl
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/README.md
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/README.modules
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/README.ratio
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/ftpasswd.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/ftpmail.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/ftpquota.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/index.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_auth_otp.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_ban.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_copy.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_ctrls_admin.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_deflate.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_digest.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_dnsbl.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_dynmasq.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_exec.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_geoip.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_ifsession.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_ifversion.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_ldap.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_load.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_log_forensic.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_qos.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_quotatab.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_quotatab_file.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_quotatab_ldap.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_quotatab_radius.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_quotatab_sql.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_radius.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_ratio.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_readme.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_rewrite.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_sftp.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_sftp_pam.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_sftp_sql.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_shaper.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_site_misc.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_snmp.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_sql.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_sql_odbc.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_sql_passwd.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_sql_sqlite.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_statcache.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_tls.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_tls_fscache.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_tls_memcache.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_tls_redis.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_tls_shmcache.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_unique_id.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_wrap.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_wrap2.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_wrap2_file.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_wrap2_redis.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/contrib/mod_wrap2_sql.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/faq.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/ASCII.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/AWS.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/AuthFiles.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Authentication.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/BCP.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Chroot.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Classes.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Compiling.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/ConfigFile.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/ConfigurationTricks.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/ConnectionACLs.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Controls.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/CreateHome.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/DNS.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/DSO.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Debugging.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Directory.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/DisplayFiles.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/ECCN.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/FTP.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/FXP.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Filters.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Globbing.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/KeepAlives.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Limit.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/ListOptions.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/LogLevels.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/LogMessages.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Logging.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Memcache.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/NAT.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Nonroot.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Quotas.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Radius.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Redis.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Regex.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Rewrite.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/SQL.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/SSH.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Scoreboard.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Sendfile.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/ServerType.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Stopping.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/TLS.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Testing.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Timestamps.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Tracing.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Translations.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Umask.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Upgrade.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Versioning.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/Vhost.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/VirtualUsers.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/ftpaccess.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/howto/index.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/license.txt
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/mod_sample.c
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules/index.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules/mod_auth.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules/mod_auth_file.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules/mod_auth_pam.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules/mod_auth_unix.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules/mod_cap.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules/mod_core.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules/mod_ctrls.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules/mod_delay.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules/mod_dso.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules/mod_facl.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules/mod_facts.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules/mod_ident.html
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/usr/share/doc/proftpd/rfc/rfc2640.txt
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/rfc/rfc3659.txt
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/rfc/rfc4217.txt
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/rfc/rfc7151.txt
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/sample-configurations
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/usr/share/doc/proftpd/sample-configurations/PFTEST.group
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/sample-configurations/PFTEST.install
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/sample-configurations/PFTEST.passwd
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/sample-configurations/PFTEST.shadow
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/sample-configurations/anonymous.conf
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/sample-configurations/basic.conf
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/sample-configurations/complex-virtual.conf
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/sample-configurations/mod_sql.conf
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/sample-configurations/virtual.conf
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/utils
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/utils/ftpasswd.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/utils/ftpcount.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/utils/ftpdctl.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/utils/ftpmail.html
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/usr/share/doc/proftpd/utils/ftpscrub.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/utils/ftpshut.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/utils/ftptop.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/utils/ftpwho.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/utils/index.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/utils/prxs.html
/usr/share/licenses/proftpd
/usr/share/licenses/proftpd/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/bg_BG/LC_MESSAGES/proftpd.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/proftpd.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/proftpd.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/proftpd.mo
/usr/share/locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/proftpd.mo
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/usr/share/locale/ko_KR/LC_MESSAGES/proftpd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/proftpd.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/proftpd.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/proftpd.mo
/usr/share/man/man5/proftpd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/xferlog.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ftpdctl.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ftpscrub.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ftpshut.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/proftpd.8.gz
/var/ftp
/var/ftp/pub
/var/ftp/uploads
/var/ftp/welcome.msg
/var/log/proftpd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install proftpd on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.