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Secure existing ProFTPd server installation

secure-proftpd

ProFTPd is a high-performant, extremely configurable and most of all secure FTP server written for use on Unix and Unix-like operating systems. The FTP daemon has Apache-like configuration syntax and supports virtual servers – a parallel FTP environments that are physically located on the same system but that answer to different IP addresses or ports.

ProFTPD generally uses a single configuration file, found at /etc/proftpd.conf or at /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf. This small cheatsheet describes directives in config file that helps to harden currently running ProFTPd instance.
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