Creating Account in Pure-FTPd

Pure-FTPd is a free (BSD), secure, production-quality and standard-conformant FTP server based upon Troll-FTPd.

Home Page:

http://www.pureftpd.org/

Creating Users:

1. First create the account:

% pure-pw useradd <username> -f /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.passwd -u <uid> -g <gid> -d /var/ftp/<username> -c “<comment>”
* <username> is the login name
* <uid> User ID (name or number) of a real user that already exists on the system, as whom the new user’s account should run
* <gid> is the Group ID (name or number) of a real group that already exists on the system, as whom the new user’s account should run
* <comment> is the full name of the user (or company name)

2. It will then ask you for a password, follow the prompts

3. Create the home directory:

% mkdir /var/ftp/<username>

Note: Refer to the <username> from step one

4. Then change permissions for that directory:

% chown <uid>:<uid> /var/ftp/<username>

Note: Refer to the <uid> from step one

5. Then you compile the pureftpd password file

% pure-pw mkdb

This is a pretty limited example for how to use the tool, and the manual page (‘man pure-pw’) provides more general usage instructions.