ProFTPD

ProFTPD
Developer(s) John Morrissey, Michael Renner, Daniel Roesen, TJ Saunders, et al.
Stable release
1.3.5b / March 10, 2016 (2016-03-10)
Preview release
1.3.6rc2 / March 10, 2016 (2016-03-10)
Operating system Unix-like systems
Type FTP daemon
License GPL
Website proftpd.org

ProFTPD (short for Pro FTP daemon) is an FTP server. ProFTPD is Free and open-source software, compatible with Unix-like systems and Microsoft Windows (via Cygwin). Along with vsftpd and Pure-FTPd, ProFTPD is among the most popular FTP servers in Unix-like environments today. Compared to those, which focus e.g. on simplicity, speed or security, ProFTPD's primary design goal is to be a highly feature rich FTP server, exposing a large amount of configuration options to the user.[1][2]

Supported platforms

  1. AIX
  2. BSD/OS
  3. DG/UX
  4. Digital Unix
  5. FreeBSD
  6. HP/UX
  7. IRIX
  8. Linux for IBM S/390, zSeries
  9. Linux
  10. Mac OS X
  11. NetBSD
  12. OpenBSD
  13. SCO
  14. Solaris
  15. SunOS
  16. Windows (via Cygwin)

Configuration and features

ProFTPD includes a number of options that are not available with many other FTP daemons.[3] The configuration of ProFTPD is performed in a single main configuration file called /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf. Due to its similarities to the configuration file of Apache HTTP Server it is intuitively understandable to someone who uses this popular web server.

Some of the most noticeable features are:[4]

Graphical user interface

Screenshot of GAdmin-ProFTPD showing the user administration tab.
Screenshot of GAdmin-ProFTPD showing the user administration tab.

ProFTPD comes with a command-line interface (CLI) only, but there are several third-party Graphical user interfaces (GUI) existing for ProFTP for users who prefer this to the CLI, or like to use a combination of both. Especially when it comes for example to real-time monitoring of current user actions and file transmissions, a GUI can be very helpful and superior to the CLI. Some existing GUIs for ProFTPD are (selection):

See also

References

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