Configuring pure-ftpd with Authorised User access on SUSE Linux

1. Install the pure-ftpd package
   zypper in pure-ftpd
   
   
2. Edit the /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf file and modify and save the following directives with the values stated:
   ChrootEveryone YES
   Demonize YES
   AnonymousOnly NO
   NoAnonymos YES
   PureDB /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb #(This line needs to be uncommented)
   
   
3. Create a UNIX dummy user account and a home directory for an authorised user
   
   • Create a UNIX dummy account
     useradd -s /dev/null ftpduser
     
   
   
   • Create a chrooted ftp home directory for the authorised user (it can be anywhere on the system - just get the UNIX file permission/ownership correct)
     mkdir /srv/ftp/ftpduser
     chown -R ftpduser /srv/ftp/ftpduser
     
   
   
4. Creating and associating pure-ftpd virtual user account (we call it jim) to UNIX system account
   pure-pw useradd jim -u ftpduser -d /srv/ftp/ftpduser
   
   
   • Then update the /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb database
     pure-pw mkdb (required for each time user added/removed/modified)
     
     
   * You may associate multiple virtual user accounts to one UNIX user account. All virtual user accounts will use the local permissions permissible to the UNIX user account.
   
   * You may also do a one-to-one matching i.e. one virtual account to one UNIX account - but you may need to create multiple home directories.
   
   
   
5. Restart the pure-ftpd daemon and you are good to go. Ensure that the appropriate firewall port is opened.