ProFTPD

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ProFTPD
Developer(s) John Morrissey, Michael Renner, Daniel Roesen, TJ Saunders, et al.
Stable release
1.3.8c [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 11 December 2024;5 months ago (11 December 2024)
Preview release
1.3.9rc3  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 11 December 2024;5 months ago (11 December 2024)
Repository
Operating system Unix-like systems
Type FTP daemon
License GPL-2.0-or-later
Website www.proftpd.org OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

ProFTPD (short for Pro FTP daemon ) is an FTP server. ProFTPD is Free and open-source software, compatible with Unix-like systems and Microsoft Windows (via Cygwin). Along with vsftpd and Pure-FTPd, ProFTPD is among the most popular FTP servers in Unix-like environments today. Compared to those, which focus e.g. on simplicity, speed or security, ProFTPD's primary design goal is to be a highly feature rich FTP server, exposing a large amount of configuration options to the user. [2] [3]

Contents

Supported platforms

Configuration and features

ProFTPD includes a number of options that are not available with many other FTP daemons. [4] The configuration of ProFTPD is performed in a single main configuration file called /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf. Due to its similarities to the configuration file of Apache HTTP Server it is intuitively understandable to someone who uses this popular web server.

Some of the most noticeable features are: [5]

Graphical user interface

Screenshot of GAdmin-ProFTPD showing the user administration tab. Gproftpd user tab.png
Screenshot of GAdmin-ProFTPD showing the user administration tab.

ProFTPD comes with a command-line interface (CLI) only, but there are several third-party Graphical user interfaces (GUI) existing for ProFTP for users who prefer this to the CLI, or like to use a combination of both. Especially when it comes for example to real-time monitoring of current user actions and file transmissions, a GUI can be very helpful and superior to the CLI. Some existing GUIs for ProFTPD are (selection):

See also

References

  1. "Release 1.3.8c". 11 December 2024. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  2. FTP Server Software for Linux
  3. A glance at the common Linux ftp servers
  4. Lockhart, Andrew (2006), Network Security Hacks: Tips & Tools for Protecting Your Privacy, O'Reilly Hacks Series (2nd ed.), O'Reilly Media, Inc., p. 23, ISBN   0596527632
  5. http://proftpd.org/features.html Features