CentOS FTP server configuration

[sakibnaz]

Hello.
I am new on Linux. I need to configure a FTP server on CentOS_5.3. I have only the SSH connection.
Can anybody give me a example how to install and configure FTP server on CentOS.

Here the FTP configuration will be as follows:

Say, User:root, Pass:root123 > is the root access

and User:guest, Pass:guest123 > can access only /usr/local/guest

Thanks in advance. Expecting your reply soon.

Regards.
Sakibnaz.

[Irithori]

In theory, ssh/scp/sftp is enough, more secure and the saner protocol in terms of a possible firewall configuration.

Imho, there are only two reasons to still use ftp:
1) low performance platforms, that cant take the higher cpu load in comparison to ftp
2) external agencys, business partners etc who dont know anything but ftp for file transfers and flat out refuse to learn "new" ways.

Centos has vsftpd in its repository, here are several examples on how to set it up:
ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans...2.3.2/EXAMPLE/

One more thing:
ftp is not encrypted.
Exposing a regular account is such a way is bad enough, but sending the root password in plaintext for every ftp login is a NoGo, imho.