Pure-FTPd installation and configuration on OpenSUSE 11.0

Install pure-ftpd

#zypper in pure-ftpd

There are three configuration files for Pure-FTPd in Suse:

• /etc/pam.d/pure-ftpd


• /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf


• /etc/xinetd.d/pure-ftpd

Example of configuration (/etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf)

ChrootEveryone              no
TrustedGID                  10
BrokenClientsCompatibility  no
MaxClientsNumber            10
Daemonize                   yes
MaxClientsPerIP             3
VerboseLog                  no
AllowDotFiles               yes
DisplayDotFiles             yes
AnonymousOnly               no
NoAnonymous                 yes
SyslogFacility              ftp
DontResolve                 no
MaxIdleTime                 3600
PAMAuthentication           yes
LimitRecursion              2000 8
AnonymousCanCreateDirs      no
MaxLoad                     4
AntiWarez                   yes
MinUID                      100
AllowUserFXP                yes
AllowAnonymousFXP           no
ProhibitDotFilesWrite       yes # group wheel still will have ability to write to doc files
ProhibitDotFilesRead        no
AutoRename                  no
AnonymousCantUpload         yes
AltLog                      clf:/var/log/pureftpd.log
NoChmod                     no
CreateHomeDir               yes
MaxDiskUsage                99
NoRename                    no
CustomerProof               yes
IPV4Only                    yes

Restart service pure-ftpd

#service pure-ftpd restart

Reference:

http://www.softpanorama.org/Commercial_linuxes/Suse/Networking/pure_ftpd_configuration.shtml

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/19818.html