vsftpd
is a GPL licensed FTP server for UNIX systems, including Linux.
It is secure and extremely fast. It is stable. Don't take
my word for it, though. Below, we will see evidence supporting
all three assertions. We will also see a list of a few important
sites which are happily using vsftpd. This demonstrates vsftpd
is a mature and trusted solution.
Features
Despite being small for purposes of speed and security, many
more complicated FTP setups are achievable with vsftpd! By
no means an exclusive list, vsftpd will handle:
- Virtual IP configurations
- Virtual users
- Standalone or inetd operation
- Powerful per-user configurability
- Bandwidth throttling
- Per-source-IP configurability
- Per-source-IP limits
- IPv6
- Encryption support through SSL integration
Online source / docs
Browse vsftpd's online source tree - including documentation.
In particular, note the content of the EXAMPLE subdirectory.
Also, here is an HTML version of the manual page which lists
all vsftpd config options.
Download / support
The latest vsftpd release is v2.2.2, currently at ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans/
Releases are infrequent since bug reports are infrequent at
this time. |