Is anyone interested in FTP?

[Altiris]

I discovered how to get VSFTPD working on CentOS linux and found that it was a pain, more of trail/error to get it up and running. If you guys are interested I can post/make a tutorial on how to get vsftpd on centos. The process will be the same for other distros. besides installation. The guide will also detail how to get SSL on it too.

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[Port]

I'm sure anybody who knows what CentOS is clever enough to figure out how to set up a FTP server on it.

[Rub]

Why would you use FTP anyway? SFTP is a lot better and doesn't require some stuffty server.

[Altiris]

I'm sure anybody who knows what CentOS is clever enough to figure out how to set up a FTP server on it.

True and not true but yeah, that's why I was asking, maybe someone had CentOS and needed help with setting up FTP, I could make a guide for them. Hardest part for me with vsftpd was working with having users locked in their home directory and having SSL enabled, I had to enable Pasv mode and open more ports. The other pain was that the version of vsftpd that CentOS has in its list or whatever is old and doesn't support a command to enable that (allow chroot something), you need to download the latest version (.tar.gz or an rpm somewhere). That was the main problem for me.

[Altiris]

Why would you use FTP anyway? SFTP is a lot better and doesn't require some stuffty server.

I didn't know SFTP existed, sorry. I will look into it, what features does sftp have other standard FTP besides it using SSH or something? Is similar like vsftpd where you can config things to lock people to their home directory? I also don't understand what you mean when you say "doesn't require a server".

EDIT: I looked online and CentOS/versions of sftp do not support locking users in their home directory, there is a way to set it up but it's a "hacky" method like we say on BL and requires compiling of code or something. I have friends/family that use this so having people locked in their own directory is a MUST for me. Thanks for suggesting though, I dont think anyone is interested in this so I am locking.