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In fact, the first two letters in VSFTPD, stand for “very secure”. VSFTPD is an FTP server software which claims to be the most secure FTP software.

We will make FTP server to share files with friends and family. I will use vsftpd for this purpose. A computer dedicated to receiving an FTP connection is referred to as an FTP server or FTP site. So that you do not end up in the home directory of the user (for example “pi”), but in the directory of the web server, you have to create an extra user or even easier to make the user’s home directory to the web server directory.Typically, a computer with an FTP address is dedicated to receive an FTP connection. After a successful connection via FTP client, you automatically end up in the user’s home directory. If the remote access works via SSH, you do not have to do anything more than build an SFTP connection (port 22) to Raspberry Pi with an FTP client, such as Filezilla.įor the connection one needs the IP address of Raspberry Pi, as well as user name and password. What many do not realize is that SSH supports FTP commands in the form of SFTP. Many solutions are based on the installation of an FTP server, such as ProFTP or vsftpd. Solution without installing an FTP server

Set up the web server so that you can load files directly into the web server directory via FTP.Check the availability of the SSH server via SFTP over the local network.Download an FTP client and install it on your client.If necessary, install an FTP server on Raspberry Pi.This is safer and at the same time as comfortable as with an FTP server. The dominated then the FTP protocol, which one can handle the file transfer over the secure SSH connection. Mostly, an SSH server is already set up for remote access. If you really want to do file transfer, you should do it with SSH. There is really no reason to run an FTP server.

However, an installation of these FTP servers is not necessarily necessary.įTP is an old and insecure protocol for file transfer. For this purpose, there are several FTP servers for Raspberry Pi. If you run a web server like the “lighttpd” on a Raspberry Pi, then it makes sense to install an FTP server to remotely load files into the webserver directory.