Appendix B: Configuration of FTP Server

The chapter will show the steps to be followed to install FTP server installation in Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS operating system.

Step 1: Installing the FTP Server on Ubuntu.

Switch to root user.

$ su root

enter the root login password

$ apt-get install vsftpd

Open vsftpd.conf file, the file is present in /etc path.

$ vi /etc/vsftpd.conf

Edit vsftpd.conf file to enable to upload and download files from the ftp server.

Uncomment the below mentioned lines in the file.

listen=YES

anonymous_enable=YES

local_enable=YES

write_enable=YES

local_umask=077 (Changing the mask value)

annon_upload_enable=YES

annon_mkdir_write_enable=YES

Step 2: To Create a directory to upload and download in the FTP server.

$ setfacl –d –m g::rwx /srv/ftp

$ setfacl –d –m o::rwx /srv/ftp

$ mkdir –p /srv/ftp/upload

$ mkdir –p /srv/ftp/download

$ chown ftp:ftp /srv/ftp/upload

$ chown ftp:ftp /srv/ftp/download

Step 3: Testing the FTP Server

Open a web browser in development PC or target board or FTP client like Filezilla Type the following in address space.

ftp://<IP address of Athena-IV board> example ftp://10.0.3.104

Note: To know the IP address assigned to the Athena-IV board, type following command in terminal

$ifconfig