Free setting up a secure ftp site software for linux

Secure FTP is a client application that allows for a 128-bit encrypted secure connection to be made to a server that supports FTP over SSL (or FTPS).
The application can be run via its graphical user interface (GUI) or from the command-line interface (CLI), allowing for headless (scriptable) operation. This makes Secure FTP a great option for both novice and advanced users.
The client is fully RFC 2228 compliant and offers both types of SSL connection options: explicit and implicit, which means more server compatibility.
Secure FTP is free to use for noncommercial use. Those wishing to use the client for commercial purposes are granted a license free of charge for 30 days.
The client is supported on Windows, Mac OS X, and any Unix platform where a Java 2 runtime environment (version 1.4+) is present. It was written in 100% pure Java.
Enhancements:
- The software was translated into French.
- Minor bug fixes and library updates were done.

Remote Secure Command System project is a remote asynchronous and secure command system based on a file configuration.

A standalone server sends and receives commands through files, and a batch system launch ssh and scp commands.

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.

Pure FTP Manager allows a user to access multiple FTP chrooted sites with a single username and password. The program uses pure-ftpd and PostgreSQL for FTP and authentication. A site is chosen by adding @sitename to the users login

Extreme FTP is an FTP daemon created with security as a priority.
Extreme FTPd features SSL/TLS and other ways to both secure the end hosts during connections and transfers.
Enhancements:
- This release adds add_features() for module developers, auth ->lock = config ->lock in auth.c, and a compilation date in eftpd -D.
- It fixes NLST (used by the Windows client), a mistake in feat.h, and a typo in ls.c.

Magic Settings Wizard is designed to quickly and easily restore or backup your favorite applications settings.
Magic Settings Wizard can backup/restore through an FTP location used as a storage medium.
Main features:
- backup or restore applications settings : select which ones from a list.
- personal home dir is automatically detected by default, but another directory can be specified.
- communicates with a FTP server specified by the user.
- FTP settings may be saved in a config file.
- a FTP directory may be created from the interface if needed.
- add your own applications settings definitions if yours dont exist in the database (edit settings_definitions.py).

iFTPd, Independent FTP Daemon, is an open source FTP server written in Java. Independent FTP Daemon features platform independence, system independence, ruggedness and a virtual file system.
The target audience of the FTP server is for those admins that need to be able to share files without having to install several other programs and databases and without having to configure the rest of the system.
Main features:
- Platform independence (Where do you want your JVM to go today?)
- System independence
- Does not require any users / groups on the host system.
- Does not require an SQL database.
- Does not does have weird and wonderful dependencies that must be downloaded from 500 different places.
- Ruggedness
- Once started, only the admin can stop iFTPd
- Virtual file system
- Create virtual file links, virtual directory links
- Merge several directories into one virtual directory
- Completely transparent to the user
- Users and groups
- Firewall friendly
- Multithreading
- Text file-based configuration
- Telnet-based status monitor
- HTML status monitor
Installation:
Unpack iftpd.zip.
Check that conf/iftpd.conf is to your liking.
Make at least one group in conf/groups/.
Make sure that at least one of the groups has a root directory.
"/stash/ftp/" r+ "/"
Make at least one user file in conf/users/.
Start iFTPd.
Linux users run: iftpd.sh
Enhancements:
- SSL (AUTH TLS) support has been added.
- Old scripts have been replaced with iftpd.sh.
- ALLO has been added for binary mode, but untested because no clients support it.
- Groups can contain other groups.
- SITE UTIME support has been added.
- Group files can have empty lines.
- CLNT support has been added.
- StatusToHtml (#CLIENTNAME#) has been added.
- The rename bug has been fixed (only worked with full paths before).
- Aborted transfer notification should finally be fixed.
- FEAT support has been added.
- IdleStrictChecking has been added in iftpd and iftpd.conf.

auto_ftp.pl came to be because I wanted to make a ftp client daemon that could be loaded on a server. When you load this script, it will search for a shared folder for ftp transfers. Currently it will recreate folder and files on the remote site or just files. It also should transfer the file as ASCII or binary depending on the file type.
I do not have a install program as of yet. You must first change a few options in auto_ftp.pl and the conf file before you can use this program. More info can be found in each file. To install the
software move auto_ftp.pl to /sbin and them move auto_ftp.conf to /etc.
Also make sure that you use the following commands on the files.
chmod 700 /sbin/auto_ftp.pl
chmod 600 /etc/auto_ftp.conf
You must create this dir first
chmod 700 /tmp/ftp_tmp
You will also need to have libnet perl modules installed. They may
be downloaded from.
This is the version i used to write auto_ftp so it will work. If there
is anyproblems with newer versions please let me know.
Enhancements:
- Added a option for port for each site in the config file. If its not defined it will use 21 as the default. Also did some code cleanup.