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Layers upon layers of security should make anyone feel warm and fuzzy about their secured application. I like the fact that if anyone is going to root me, they're going to have to WORK for it. FTP was always an area where I felt it could use a little more work in locking down its defenses. Enter Vsftpd along with a tag team partner of virtualization, and you've got a how-to of sandboxing your FTP server into a virtual environment. . Vsftpd is one of the most secure and fastest FTP servers for Linux. Usually vsftpd is configured to work with system users. This document describes how to install a vsftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. The link for this article located at HowtoForge is no longer available. . Vsftpd is one of the most secure and fastest FTP servers for Linux. Usually vsftpd is configured to . layers, security, should, anyone, fuzzy, about, their, secured, applicatio. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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