Appendix B: Configuration Of FTP Server

The chapter will show the steps to be followed to install FTP server installation in Ubuntu 20.04.2 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 Saturn board> example ftp://10.0.3.104

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

$ifconfig

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