Yes, I'm new at the whole configure everything via a command line thing... so please be patient with me.

I need some good articles/help on setting up ftp users. Actually, my problem is I can't even open an ftp session to my server. That may be a problem when it comes to uploading files.

Help?

EDIT:OK, I figured it out!

how did you figure it out???

might be an idea to post it here so that anyone else who hasnt worked it out, can do this also..

ie.. there a lot of people asking questions, and then discovering it out for themselves... then later on the same questions are just going to get asked again...

cheers...

If you're using the RedHat configuration, do this:
chkconfig vsftpd on
If you want to see what other servers you can start,
chkconfig --list

Also, default FTP installs do NOT allow the root user to FTP into the machine. You'll need to add another non-root user to your Linode.

# useradd username
# passwd username
<enter in new pw>

A better solution is to use scp or sftp, both of which are encrypted with no passwords (or data) being sent cleartext.

-Chris

Chris,

As desperately as I want to agree with you, there are still a few brain-damaged applications out there <cough>dreamweaver</cough> that don't get scp or sftp. They suggest using putty to tunnel in for security, but I had to do some serious tweaking to get that to work. Thankfully, I told the client who wanted to use dreamweaver to get lost. I'm never opening port 21 on a box I control ever again. I've had too many boxes get rooted that way.

--James