How to Create FTP Users in CentOs 6.4?

- Add a user called "bira"

# useradd bira

Add a password for the user "bira"

# passwd bira (Enter)

New password: (enter your password)

Retype new password: (enter the same password again)

passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

Now give the directory access for the user.

Change the ownership for the "html" directory

# chown bira /var/www/html

Change the group for this "html" directory .

#chgrp bira /var/www/html

list the directories and check
# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x. 3 bira bira 4096 Nov 21 13:23 html

Finally re-start the vsfptd server.
# service vsftpd restart

All done! just trying to connect with your FileZilla ftp client.

if not:

Do you have SELinux enabled?

To check: # sestatus

If SELinuxstatus = on & Current mode = enforcing, it's all enabled...

so lets turn it to permissive mode.

Permissive mode: # setenforce 0

Check sestatus again, and it should be Current mode = permissive. This basically leaves SELinux on, but in a log only manner.

All done! just trying to connect with your FileZilla ftp client.

If you still having issues please let me know my self.

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