http://www.keithdmitchell.com Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:53:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2010/07/07/how-to-disable-reverse-dns-lookups-in-proftpd/ http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2010/07/07/how-to-disable-reverse-dns-lookups-in-proftpd/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:09:47 +0000 keith http://www.keithdmitchell.com/?p=428 If you use cPanel, Plesk or any Linux control panel or Distro, you may notice that your Proftpd connection is either slow or takes some time before it becomes responsive. This is likely due to the Proftpd instance doing a Reverse DNS Lookup and it is having issues doing so. However it is possible to [...]]]> http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2010/07/07/how-to-disable-reverse-dns-lookups-in-proftpd/feed/ 0 http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2010/06/30/how-to-enable-sftp-with-filezilla-server/ http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2010/06/30/how-to-enable-sftp-with-filezilla-server/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:00:57 +0000 keith http://www.keithdmitchell.com/?p=414 By default, Filezilla Server does not support FTP via SFTP. However if can use SSL / TLS, commonly referred to as FTPS .  It’s also a breeze to enable this in the Filezilla FTP Server Configuration. To do this, you simply have to do the following: 1.Access the Filezilla FTP server’s settings by going to [...]]]> http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2010/06/30/how-to-enable-sftp-with-filezilla-server/feed/ 1 http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2010/02/12/creating-additional-ftp-users-in-plesk-linux/ http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2010/02/12/creating-additional-ftp-users-in-plesk-linux/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:02:04 +0000 keith http://www.keithdmitchell.com/?p=322 Plesk for Linux, by default only allows one ftp users (While it does let you add multiple web users, they are locked to the same directory as the main ftp user). However you can get around this limitation by creating additional FTP users by creating them outside of Plesk, using SSH / Shell. The process [...]]]> http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2010/02/12/creating-additional-ftp-users-in-plesk-linux/feed/ 0 http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2009/12/17/how-to-disable-anonymous-ftp-access-in-vsftp/ http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2009/12/17/how-to-disable-anonymous-ftp-access-in-vsftp/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:48:43 +0000 keith http://www.keithdmitchell.com/?p=265 1. SSH to the server that has VsFTP, and SU to it. 2. Edit file /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf, find line anonymous_enable=YES change to anonymous_enable=NO 3. Do /sbin/service vsftpd restart 4. Try to ftp to domain or IP without providing a user/password. Access will be rejected. Anonymous FTP has been rejected!]]> http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2009/12/17/how-to-disable-anonymous-ftp-access-in-vsftp/feed/ 0 http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2009/07/08/how-to-change-default-listening-port-for-vsftpd/ http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2009/07/08/how-to-change-default-listening-port-for-vsftpd/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:22:52 +0000 keith http://www.keithdmitchell.com/?p=169 If you are running vsftpd in standalone mode (not Xinetd), add the “listen_port” directive in vsftpd.conf,like this: listen_port=222 If you are running vsftpd from an inetd or xinetd program, this becomes an inetd or xinetd problem. You must change the inetd or xinetd configuration files (perhaps /etc/inetd.conf or /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd).]]> http://www.keithdmitchell.com/2009/07/08/how-to-change-default-listening-port-for-vsftpd/feed/ 0