Installed vsftpd but not sure where home folder is located.

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Jim B wrote:

> I have installed vsftpd on Debian but I am not sure where the defualt
> directory is so that i can place files I want on the ftp server in that
> location?
>
> I have looked at the man page and the vsftpd.conf file and comments but no
> luck yet.

Look at the vsftpd.conf manual page about ftp_username: "The home 
directory of this user is the root of the anonymous FTP area."

The default is ftp user. So create a "ftp" user and then /home/ftp 
could be used.

This is the common setup for several FTP daemons.

  Jeremy C. Reed

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