FTP Configuration in RHEL7

                In this scenario, local Repository has been built with Operating System Media so that packages get installed from media,

In RHEL, as same as in previous versions, ftp services served by the package/daemon called vsftpd i.e. Very Secure FTP Daemon,

[root@linux ~]#

[root@linux ~]#

[root@linux ~]# yum install vsftpd

Command to install VSFTPD package is as follows,

[root@linux ~]# yum install vsftpd

Loaded plugins: product-id, subscription-manager

This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.

local                                                                                                                                 | 4.1 kB  00:00:00

Resolving Dependencies

--> Running transaction check

---> Package vsftpd.x86_64 0:3.0.2-9.el7 will be installed

--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

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 Package                             Arch                                Version                                    Repository                          Size

====================================================================

Installing:

 vsftpd                              x86_64                              3.0.2-9.el7                                local                              166 k

Transaction Summary

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Install  1 Package

Total download size: 166 k

Installed size: 343 k

Is this ok [y/d/N]: y

Downloading packages:

Running transaction check

Running transaction test

Transaction test succeeded

Running transaction

  Installing : vsftpd-3.0.2-9.el7.x86_64                                                                                                                 1/1

  Verifying  : vsftpd-3.0.2-9.el7.x86_64                                                                                                                 1/1

Installed:

  vsftpd.x86_64 0:3.0.2-9.el7

Complete!

[root@linux ~]#

Once the installation of package completes, enable the vsftpd service at startup. This can be done using the following command,

[root@linux ~]# systemctl enable vsftpd.service

ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/vsftpd.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vsftpd.service'

[root@linux ~]#

Then start the service using systemctl as below,

[root@linux ~]# systemctl start vsftpd.service

[root@linux ~]#

Now FTP Service is enabled and available for localhost. To make available through LAN or outside network, this has to be enabled through firewall,

To do the same, following is the command to allow ftp through firewall,

[root@linux ~]#

[root@linux ~]# firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=ftp

Success

To save the rule, execute the following command,

[root@linux ~]# firewall-cmd --reload

success

[root@linux ~]#

Now we are ready with FTP Server configuration. From any other machine, just go to browser and type ftp://192.168.x.x/ and it will open list of files which are available in FTP default directory