Installing and Configuring ProFTPD Server in Ubuntu/Debian

1) Install proftpd using apt-get command

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

$ sudo apt-get install proftpd

2) Add this line in /etc/shells file :

/bin/false

3) Create a /home/FTP-shared directory :

cd /home
sudo mkdir FTP-shared

4) Create a user which will be used only for ftp access. 

sudo useradd any_user_name -p your_password -d /home/FTP-shared -s /bin/false
sudo passwd userftp


5) Now we have to set the good permissions for these directories :

cd /home
sudo chmod 755 FTP-shared


6) Provide access of this directory to user 

chown -R (FTPUSER) /(path)/(to_your_ftp)/

6) Restart proftpd service

sudo /etc/init.d/proftpd restart