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(short for Pro FTP daemon) is a free and open source FTP server

ProFTPD is compatible with Unix-like systems and Microsoft Windows (via Cygwin). Along with vsftpd and Pure-FTPd, ProFTPD is among the most popular FTP servers in UNIX-like environments today.

Compared to those, which focus e.g. on simplicity, speed or security, ProFTPD's primary design goal is to be a highly feature rich FTP server, exposing a large amount of configuration options to the user. ProFTPD grew out of the desire to have a secure and configurable FTP server, at a time where the most common FTP server was wu-ftpd, which was not very feature rich and had a poor security history.

Source: ProFTPD | Wikipedia

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Starting ProFTPD fail

I have a problem with start ProFTPD. the command window displays this message when I start ProFTPD. asil@asil-PC:~$ sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start Starting XAMPP for Linux 7.0.9-0... XAMPP: Starting Apache...already running. XAMPP: Starting…
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Proftpd can't retrieve directory listing when outside the network

I know this question has been asked many times on the internet and a google search will bring up a multitude of posts, but none of them have been of any help and are all very vague and not specific, so I aim to finally get a definite answer out…
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I want to create an FTP account that can oversee multiple other FTP accounts. How should I manage my permissions and users?

I rent my own virtual server. I installed Ubuntu Server 14.04 and use it as a webserver. I have hosted some websites of my own on this server, as virtual hosts. I also have a few friends who I give access to my server, so they can host their…
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ProFTPd service shuts down automatically

I have ProFTPd service installed on my server which runs Ubuntu Linux 14.04 . I don't know why ProFTPd closes by itself. I have enough RAM and CPU and I really don't know why this happens. I also checked ProFTPd config file I still don't figure it…
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Configure ProFTPD correctly on Ubuntu 16.04

-- My System Info Ubuntu 16.04 Using SSL through LetsEncrypt module ProFTPD module Main domain is a WordPress I know there're a lot subjects for this issue and I read dozens of documentations but unfortunately nothing of those solutions working…
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proftpd umask and owners

I am not a sysadmin, so my knowledge is limited in this topic. We have an apache with some virtualhosts. For some reason, the group of the files and directories is a gitusers, because we are using hooks on commit sometimes. Sometimes not, but I…
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Why does my proftpd server refuse the connection?

I have a small BananaPi (similar to RaspberryPi) running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and I would like to use it as an FTP server inside my Network. When trying to connect to the server via port 21 using filezilla on the BananaPi, I am getting the…
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Installing a previous version of proftpd on ubuntu

I am trying to install a previous version (1.3.5) of proftpd on ubuntu to exploit an inherit vulnerability and following this thread. For checking what versions are available to apt-get, I ran apt-cache policy proftpd with…
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proftpd cannot start neither in standalone nor in inetd/xinetd mode

I am running ProFTPD on Ubuntu 16.04 and whenever I try to start it up, I just get the message ProFTPD Warning: cannot start neither in standalone nor in inetd/xinetd mode. Check your configuration. I can attatch the config file if you need it.
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ProFTPd on 14.04 - 503 Error

Config file is nice and simple, I'm not asking too much of ProFTPd and I have set required parameters. ServerName “uk.domain.com" ServerType standalone DefaultServer on # Port 21 is the standard FTP port. Port …
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ProFTPD - set a group manager to access all users files in the group tree

I am currently developing a client application with pyqt and ftplib to help backup/restore file to/from a ProFTPD server. The company is divided into many agencies and every agency is a ftp group with many users. Authentication is made using MySQL…
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New user can't login from FTP in ubuntu server 14.04

I have install a new ubuntu server 14.04 instance on our server and creating a user for FTP access.but the the user can log in via terminal on the server but can't login via FTP.I am using proftpd for FTP server.Can anyone help me out from this…
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Getting ProFTPD to work on Ubuntu 25.04

After upgrading to Ubuntu 25.04 I just can't seem to get ProFTPD up and running again as it fails with: fatal: unknown configuration directive 'ShowSymlinks' on line 26 of '/etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf' Then if I comment that line out I get an error…
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Cant Access FTP account using proftpd on Azure

i created VM on cloud with ubuntu 22.04 and installed Proftpd server . this Server is behind Firewall NSV270 . i can aces sftp Account using external IP , but i cant acess FTP using any ftp client , using passive or active modes its give me this…
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Failed to retrieve directory listing with ProFTP in Passive mode

I'm trying to install a ftp server in Ubuntu 16.04 with ProFTP Active mode works great. But when it comes to passive mode, I get the error: Failed to retrieve directory listing with ProFTP in Passive mode Here is my config file: # #…
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