vsftpd is an FTP server, or daemon. The “vs” stands for Very Secure.
vsftpd is an inetd-based service. It has achieved ~4000 concurrent users on a single machine, in a production environment. vsftpd has achieved 86Mbyte/sec download over Gigabit ethernet between Linux-2.4.x boxes.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Virtual IP configurations.
- Virtual users.
- Standalone or inetd operation.
- Powerful per-user configurability.
- Bandwidth throttling.
- Per-source-IP configurability.
- Per-source-IP limits.
- IPv6.
- Encryption support through SSL integration.
Website: security.appspot.com/vsftpd.htm
Support:
Developer: Chris Evans
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
vsftpd is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| FTP Servers | |
|---|---|
| Pure-FTPd | Fast and secure production-quality and standard-conformant FTP server |
| SFTPGo | Fully featured and highly configurable SFTP server |
| ProFTPd | Highly configurable FTP server software |
| bftpd | Strives to be fast, secure and quick to install and configure |
| vsftpd | Fairly minimal FTPd |
| tnftpd | Default NetBSD FTP server |
| umftpd | Transfer files directly via most file browsers' built-in FTP support |
| Inetutils | Collection of networking utilities, including an FTP server |
| FileZilla Server | FTP and FTPS server with a graphical administration interface |
| unFTP | Modern FTP(S) server |
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