vsftpd, which stands for "Very Secure FTP Daemon", is an FTP server for UNIX-like systems, including Linux. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License. It supports IPv6 and SSL.
vsftpd is the default FTP server in Ubuntu, Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and a number of other distributions.
Features
Despite being small for purposes of speed and security, many more complicated FTP setups are achievable with vsftpd! By no means an exclusive list, vsftpd will handle: - 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
- etc...
ftp.redhat.com is powered by vsftpd for performance reasons - see below
ftp.openbsd.org is powered by vsftpd because it needs to be very secure! - see below
Someone sent me this green lizard.. (ftp.suse.com)
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