Details: Lubos Rendek; Ubuntu; 11 July 2014

Introduction

FTP is a service known to almost anyone who works with Internet on daily basis. This guide will describe in detail how to setup an FTP server on Ubuntu Linux in simple to follow steps. We will show how to setup an FTP server in normal and stand-alone mode. We will also provide some security tips for your new FTP setup. This guide will use lightweight and efficient FTP server vsFTPd, which is designed to withstand on servers with high load.

Conventions

Occasionally in this article we will refer to vsFTPd simply as FTP server.

What is FTP

For those who are not familiar with FTP here is a short description of what this service offers. FTP stand for File Transfer Protocol. As the name suggest this network protocol allows you to transfer files or directories from one host to another over the network whether it is your LAN or Internet.

Main features of vsFTPd are: Virtual IP configurations, Virtual users, Standalone or inetd operation, Powerful per-user configurability, Bandwidth throttling, Per-source-IP configurability, Per-source-IP limits, IPv6 andEncryption support through SSL integration.

Details: Lubos Rendek; Ubuntu; 07 July 2014

In this document we describe an installation of Puppet configuration manager on a Ubuntu Linux 14.04 Trusty Tahr. The installation will be followed by a simple puppet manifest example to make sure that installation was successful and puppet ready to use as standalone deployment.
First we need to inlcude puppet repository to our Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr Linux system:

$ wget http://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-trusty.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i puppetlabs-release-trusty.deb 
$ sudo apt-get update

Now we are ready to install an appropriate puppet package which will fetch all necessary prerequisites requirements:

$ sudo apt-get install puppet

After a successful execution of the above command check the puppet version to get a first indication of working puppet manager on your system.

$ puppet --version
3.6.2

In the next step we are ready to test our Puppet installation with a simple puppet manifest file puppet-test.pp, which will do nothing else just create a file /tmp/puppet with a content: "Puppet installation, successful".

$ cat puppet-test.pp
file { '/tmp/puppet':
	content => "Puppet installation, successful",
}

Step 1 - Reboot to GRUB2 boot menu

First reboot/reset your system to GRUB2 boot loader menu. Navigate to the menu item you normally boot you Ubuntu system from and press "e" for edit.

Step 2 - Modify boot options

Find the line which starts with "linux". Navigate to the end of the line and add:

init=/bin/bash

as illustrated on the screen-shot below:

Ubuntu 14.04 Lost Password Recovery Grub 2

Step 3 - Boot your system

Once you have changed boot options as indicated in the previous step press F10 to instruct your Ubuntu system to boot. Your system will boot and you will be provided with root command line prompt.

How to setup and use FTP Server in Ubuntu Linux