How to Setup FTP on an AWS EC2 Instance

• Installation

$ sudo su

$ yum install vsftpd -y

• Configuration

  sudo su
  cp /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf.org

  Elastic_IP=`curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-ipv4`

  cat << EOF >> /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
  pasv_enable=YES
  pasv_addr_resolve=YES
  pasv_address=${Elastic_IP}
  pasv_min_port=60001
  pasv_max_port=60010
  use_localtime=YES
  force_dot_files=YES
  EOF

  sed -i -e “/^anonymous_enable/s/YES/NO/g” /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
  sed -i -e “/^dirmessage_enable/s/YES/NO/g” /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
  sed -i -e “/^#ascii_upload_enable/s/#//g” /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
  sed -i -e “/^#ascii_download_enable/s/#//g” /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
  sed -i -e “/^#chroot_local_user/s/#//g” /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
  sed -i -e “/^#chroot_list_enable/s/#//g” /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
  sed -i -e “/^tcp_wrappers/s/YES/NO/g” /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
  sed -i -e “/^connect_from_port_20/s/YES/NO/g” /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.eonf
  -cibut “/^xferlog_std_format/s/YES/NO/g” /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
  touch /etc/vsftpd/chroot_list

• Start vsftpd

$ sudo service vsftpd start
$ sudo chkconfig vsftpd on

• create a user to connect by FTP

sudo su
useradd ftp-user
passwd ftpuser “You will be asked for a password, so set an arbitrary password”.

Done!

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