As the name suggest 'Very Secure File Transfer Protocol Deamon' (VSFTPD) is one of the most secure FTP daemons available, vsftpd is used as the default FTP server in the Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, NimbleX, Slackware and RHEL Linux distros. It is authorized under the GNU General Public License. It is secure and very quick and stable.
To check whether VSFTPD is available by default
sudo systemctl status vsftpd
Install vsftpd
sudo apt install vsftpd -y
Check agian whether vsftpd is running on the server
sudo systemctl status vsftpd
Configuration
To begin with the configuration, open the vsftpd.conf file by typing:
sudo vim /etc/vsftpd.conf
Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
write_enable=YES
Restart vsftp service
sudo systemctl restart vsftpd
By this configuration, your local user will become an FTP user. with that username and password, you will be able to upload, download files from your browser itself.
