How To Install proftpd on Rocky Linux 8
In this tutorial we learn how to install proftpd on Rocky Linux 8. proftpd is Flexible, stable and highly-configurable FTP server
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install proftpd on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install proftpd.
Install proftpd on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install proftpd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install proftpd
Install proftpd on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
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 Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the proftpd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove proftpd
proftpd Package Contents on Rocky Linux 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
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f/cd2afe4d95fc9dcf96634048f6549edadf0562
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/db4afc1a56febd485a48cd480cf02a12148466
/usr/lib/.build-id/23
/usr/lib/.build-id/23/3414f1d15d44b9e8093a7d2a23bcda01bc032c
/usr/lib/.build-id/23/b0b592bb04f846d3a0b894c3922710d9aee9e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/24
/usr/lib/.build-id/24/5ad9a1467b7078c31bd79e13ff0bb72bb6d054
/usr/lib/.build-id/35
/usr/lib/.build-id/35/76c23111aa44c71da22121a702c94750d7648b
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d/035156014681efdf5e85ace7300b393b62a446
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/c17157b3977185cca69266586c1b14f7178356
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/24153e60e8f892c7ccf3975d959e38104536cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/f11b9f2a74af07a96e48a786fd9c1a1ada0a17
/usr/lib/.build-id/69
/usr/lib/.build-id/69/ccdec4017b980a0a2a5e6d2740427046844c20
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/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/7dbd02561517c5039678378896aa824370528e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a/f7482b0f932867a93412fe97e1d74b9d3f5fb1
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/617c37622d8067567838039c3db83012ecb359
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/26177ca70ad7645fd2ccd9e7c1ead762b6bc30
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/0dd0f3f30161db18a2976ce7f41e735a990351
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e/82799fbb379a4273739a9fb6998092462676d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/60fb73fd058079902757382ee28b6f31f786fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/98
/usr/lib/.build-id/98/1aa2cef679f93c62e243251e356641e5f164f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/98/1fb4b2c36601a2a495123cb78dff84753f24a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/df03b28a580d10d334ce187de4947d06b9d1fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/6c83e34935d39272034f2bf8f72e1f0045fad0
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac/5b13d252ad3e9007ab24e19f83835493464354
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae/36eb08b8a50d2c3c7fbabdcae6ae0c67ee3903
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/adf3c7da71d7e8c5b3e2ef10d13b32c49f89f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce/2b6cb38b546f716cc9e592e8d5354fafef4961
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce/906f973c9ec35f2339bb66ebd5ca9cd4f86aaa
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/589dde6ab15116a6bf8dd17369335ecb97e6cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/acac03a1f6a2e1e11718128f6d8fc4bd185baf
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2/022fdc192864e3eb803d17c1d9fc5d0f4a099c
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6/b9c7ef02b5fae11239f9f83cfb4a255136d217
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/7d80ad84518d5d555fe94811170e869f853b04
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/f74767bf8a8b232839c07292407ab411b3b01d
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/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
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules/mod_lang.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules/mod_log.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules/mod_ls.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules/mod_memcache.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules/mod_redis.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules/mod_rlimit.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules/mod_site.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/modules/mod_xfer.html
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/rfc
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/rfc/draft-bonachea-sftp-00.txt
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/rfc/draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-15.txt
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/rfc/draft-ietf-ftpext-sec-consider-02.txt
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/rfc/draft-somers-ftp-mfxx-03.txt
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/rfc/rfc0959.txt
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/rfc/rfc2228.txt
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/rfc/rfc2389.txt
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/rfc/rfc2428.txt
/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
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/sample-configurations/PFTEST.conf.in
/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
/usr/share/doc/proftpd/utils/ftpquota.html
/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
/usr/share/locale/ja_JP/LC_MESSAGES/proftpd.mo
/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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.