Free bulletproof ftp server software for linux

Pure FTP Server is a fast, production quality, standards-conformant FTP server based on Troll-FTPd. Pure FTP Server has no known vulnerability, it is trivial to set up, and it is especially designed for modern kernels.
Features include PAM support, IPv6, chroot()ed home directories, virtual domains, built-in ls, FXP protocol, anti-warez system, bandwidth throttling, restricted ports for passive downloads, an LDAP backend, XML output, and more.
Beginners can install a Pure-FTPd server in 5 minutes. It can be as simple as installing the package, typing "pure-ftpd &" and... thats all. You already have a running server, and clients can start to connect.
Theres no need to review any long and complex configuration file, where possible mistakes could have security and reliability implications. Pure-FTPd uses simple command-line switches to enable the features you need.
You can limit the number of simultaneous users, limit their bandwidth to avoid starving your ADSL or cable-modem link, hide system files (chroot), have upload/download ratios, and moderate new uploads.
Custom messages can be displayed at login-time (even changing fortune files) and when an user enters a new directory. Also, to avoid your disks being filled up, you can defined a maximal percentage, and new uploads will be disallowed once this percentage is reached.
The FXP (server-to-server) protocol is implemented. It can be available for everyone, or only for authenticated users.
Kiddies are using common brute-forcing tools that are trying to discover hidden directories. Pure-FTPd provides a protection against this. Anonymous access is secure by default. For instance, users cant access dot-files (.bash_history, .rhosts, ...) unless you explicitely enable this.
And to watch whos doing what, the pure-ftpwho command shows a table with currently active sessions, how much bandwidth is taken by every user, what files they are uploading or downloading, where they are coming from, etc.
Enhancements:
- User names can now be up to 127 characters long.
- Compilation with PAM support has been fixed on Mac OS X, and the MySQL PASSWORD() function can now be used with MySQL >= 4.1.
- Logging now has the correct timezone.
- Support for charset conversions (RFC2640) has been implemented. Large files are now handled by default, using sendfile64() if possible. SITE UTIME and OPTS MLST have been implemented.
- MySQL queries can now include multiple statements and call MySQL 5 stored procedures.
- Transferring a lot of small files is now much faster than in previous versions.

Net::FTPServer is a secure, extensible and configurable Perl FTP server.
SYNOPSIS
ftpd [--help] [-d] [-v] [-p port] [-s] [-S] [-V] [-C conf_file]
[-P pidfile] [-o option=value]
Net::FTPServer is a secure, extensible and configurable FTP server written in Perl.
Current features:
- Authenticated FTP access.
- Anonymous FTP access.
- Complete implementation of current RFCs.
- ASCII or binary type file transfers.
- Active or passive mode file transfers.
- Run standalone or from inetd(8).
- Security features: chroot, resource limits, tainting, protection against buffer overflows.
- IP-based and/or IP-less virtual hosts.
- Complete access control system.
- Anonymous read-only FTP personality.
- Virtual filesystem allows files to be served from a database.
- Directory aliases and CDPATH support.
- Extensible command set.
- Generate archives on the fly.
Installation:
A standard ftpd.conf file is supplied with the distribution. Full documentation for all the possible options which you may use in this file is contained in this manual page. See the section CONFIGURATION below.
After doing make install, the standard ftpd.conf file should have been installed in /etc/ftpd.conf. You will probably need to edit this file to suit your local configuration.
Also after doing make install, several start-up scripts will have been installed in /usr/sbin/*ftpd.pl. (On Debian in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin). Each start-up script starts the server in a different configuration: either as a full FTP server, or as an anonymous-only read-only FTP server, etc.
The commonly used scripts are:
- /usr/sbin/ftpd.pl
- /usr/sbin/ro-ftpd.pl
The first script is for the full FTP server.
These scripts assume that the perl interpreter can be found on the current $PATH. In the rare situation when this is not the case, you may need to edit these scripts.

Chestnut FTP Search is a web application to search for files on FTP servers. Files can by searched only by file/directory names, nor be file contents. Users can query files by part of the file name, the entire file name, a regular expression, or a shell pattern.
The program is written in Python using web.py framework. To store file indexes PostgreSQL or MySQL is use.
Main features:
- Four search modes: partial match, exact match, regular expression, shell pattern. Every mode can by case sensitive or case insensitive
- Character set can by specified for particular server to allow non ASCII file names.
- Multi-threaded indexer
- i18n support

ProFTPD developed out of the desire to have a secure and configurable FTP server, and out of a real admiration for the Apache web server.
There are currently a very limited number of FTP servers running on Unix (or Unix-like) hosts. The most commonly used server is wu-ftpd. While wu-ftpd provides excellent performance and is generally a good product, it lacks numerous features found in newer Win32 FTP servers and has a poor security history.
Many people, including the developers who work on ProFTPD, have spent a great deal of time fixing bugs and hacking features into wu-ftpd. Unfortunately, it quickly became clear that a complete redesign was necessary in order to implement the configurability and features desired.
ProFTPD is not a hack based on any other server, its an independent source tree from the ground up. A number of well known and high traffic sites use ProFTPD.

Troll-FTPd provides a free, small, and secure virtual FTP server.
Troll-ftpd is smaller and uses less resources than older servers, and executes no external programs. It allows virtual-IP servers, supports only the most-used features and commands of FTP, and leaves out everything which is deprecated, meaningless, or insecure.
Enhancements:
- This version fixes a minor denial of security problem.
- IPv6 support will be added and any new security problems will be fixed, but apart from that, this is probably the last release.
- At least two projects use troll-ftpd as a base: silug ftpd (a threaded ftpd largely based on troll-ftpd but trying to reach even higher performance), and pure-ftpd (a GNU project which uses troll-ftpd and adds a lot of features, even including "fortune" support).

Adblock Plus Filter Uploader is a Firefox extension that uploads the filters from your Adblock Plus installation to a FTP server.

This extension requires Adblock Plus! https://addons.mozilla.org/mozilla/1865/ This just uploads the filters you have in Adblock Plus to a FTP server!

This will only be useful for people who actively modify their filters and either want to share them with others or synchronize the filters between different computers.

MEPIS has released MEPIS SoHoServer Test02 for public testing. This release is available for download at public mirrors and the MEPIS subscription ftp server. Look in the “testing” subdirectory.

SoHoServer is a general purpose server based on the recent release of Debian “sarge.”. The preinstalled and configured server software includes Apache2, PHP4, Perl, Mysql, Proftpd, Bind, DHCPd, Postfix, Dovecot, Shorewall, Squid, DansGuardian, Webmin, and Usermin.

Like other MEPIS products, SoHoServer is easy to try, easy to install, and easy to use. It comes preconfigured with defaults that “just work” in most situations. Early testers report that even someone with limited server experience can have a MEPIS SoHoServer up and running in as little as fifteen minutes.

Test 02 has updated preconfigs, in response to user feedback. The latest security updates have been added and the MEPIS tools have been updated to the latest versions.

PHP FTP Client is an FTP client that is useful for allowing people behind a firewall access to FTP without opening the FTP ports inside the firewall.
It could be used as a front end to a local FTP server, and therefore allow the administrator to provide access to the FTP server only from localhost.
Main features:
- Provide FTP access through a firewall which blocks FTP
- Provide a front end to an FTP server which only allows access to the web server, thus reducing the risk of the FTP server being attacked.
Enhancements:
- Have corrected problems with missing files. Was a case of linking against files I shouldnt have been.
- Added an FAQ, which currently only explains how to use the multi-file upload feature.