There are multiple reasons I recommend using pure-ftpd-mysql as ftp service: can authenticate both physical and virtual (read from database) users. It’s highly but easily configurable. Installing: apt-get install pure-ftpd-mysql The configuration files are found at /etc/pure-ftpd. By default, pure-ftpd authenticates only users that has an uid 1000 or over. Thus root cannot authenticate (having […]