Installing Pureftpd on Solaris 10

We will use pkgget to install the Pureftpd software.

Install pkg-get.

Skip this if you already have it installed.

Reference: http://www.blastwave.org/howto.html

Add the pureftpd package.

This downloads and complies the Pureftpd package.
The binary is located here:

To run try this:

Or better yet use the supplied start up script located here:

Configure Pureftpd

Configuration file the start script looks at:

Rename to pureftpd.conf

Edit config file. We wanted anonymous ftp access turned off and vistual users activated.

So uncomment

Next we’ll complete the steps needed to enable Virtual Users.

We need to create the pureftpd.pdb file from /opt/csw/etc/pureftpd.passwd.

First create a password file

Make the pureftpd.pdb file

Or

The start up script expects the files to appear in /etc/
Copy files there:

and

Start Pureftpd

Start the Pureftpd program

For further documentation on using and configuring, take  a look at www.pureftpd.org

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